Free for everyone! UWM’s department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres is home to a faculty and staff who are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists, whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. Expect …
Filmmaker in person! A young filmmaker stumbles on a hidden book tied to a vanished art forger and the perfect mystery for his next film pitch. But as coincidences mount, he begins to question what’s real, who’s watching him, and …
While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, a respected academic becomes entranced by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce images from any point in history on a television screen. Her obsession …
New restoration! In the days when salt was worth its weight in gold, Spanish colonists in the Araya peninsula of northeast Venezuela built a fortress to guard against pirates; now only ruins lie at the center of Margot Benacerraf’s lyrical …
4K restoration! Once voted the greatest Indian film ever made, Sholay opened in Mumbai in 1975 and ran continuously for the next five years. A grand tapestry of genres–action-thriller, revenge Western, comedy, tragedy, musical–is India’s first 70mm film and the …
Drawing on a background in painting and the fine arts, Julie Murray has made more than twenty-five beguiling and beautiful films, equally invested in metaphysics as in material. Murray will be present to share a program of her recent moving-image …
The Yanomami people, relatively isolated in the Brazilian Amazon until the 1970s dictatorship opened their lands to extraction, hold a time-worn funeral rite said to hold up the sky against those who would tear it down, and to galvanize themselves …
After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic learns that desire’s fulfillment comes at the highest price. (Curry Barker, 2026, USA, 108 mins, Blu-ray)
Winner of Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize, Tom Noonan’s directorial debut is a darkly humorous take on the dread of dating. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together, the film …
An adrenaline shot to the heart of British cinema, Danny Boyle’s darkly comic breakthrough relates the life and times of live-wire Scottish heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his misfit mates, who get high, get in trouble, get clean, …
