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Common Ground – Exhibition Run
Common Ground explores the possibilities of working with natural materials, bringing together artists whose practices engage with these mediums. The featured works demonstrate the diverse ways artists transform raw materials into objects of beauty, meaning, and innovation. Each work reflects …
Affirmation Station
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStop by the Affirmation Station in the Student Union Hallway-East during Body Acceptance Week to view the mirrors, affirmative messages, and practice positive self-talk through make-and-take inspirational quote items.
Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival
Join us for a vibrant celebration of Indigenous culture and traditions! Immerse yourself in a day filled with music, captivating performances, live art, and a myriad of vendors offering unique Indigenous creations. Indulge in delicious food that showcases the diverse culinary heritage of Indigenous communities.
Fibers Made Easy: Knitted Scarves
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis two-night class provides a great introduction for the brand-new knitter, or an opportunity to get back into the groove after a hiatus! We'll focus on foundational technical skills and how to read a pattern. Learning from an experienced teacher in a community setting offers many benefits: the chance to ask questions in real time, receive feedback, and see your peers' work! Skills gained in this short course can accelerate progress towards more complex fiber projects!
Gasthaus Trivia
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCalling all brainiacs and social butterflies! Join the fun at UWM Gasthaus for their epic trivia night. Teams can have 2-6 players, and if you fly solo, no worries! We’ll help you connect with fellow Panthers who are also trivia …
Faculty Showcase
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 drama, documentary, comedy, experimentations, animations, appropriations, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.
Screamplay
An aspiring screenwriter comes to Hollywood to make it in the movies... only to wind up as janitor of a fleabag apartment run by a greasy ex-boxer (George Kuchar). When the writer channels frustrations with his kooky neighbors into fodder for a new screenplay, the vivid murders he imagines start to happen for real, and the line between fiction and fantasy begins to smear. A singularly charming tribute to Old Hollywood and a marvel of low-budget, high-concept filmmaking.
Killer Condom | Staff Picks
In the seedy underbelly of midtown Manhattan, the male patrons of the Hotel Quickie are getting their genitals bitten off by a carnivorous condom. Ace detective Luigi Mackeroni, assigned to the case, is skeptical–until he finds himself maimed by one of the man-eating prophylactics. As an army of ravenous rubbers besieges the Big Apple, Mackeroni must find a way to contracept the escalating emasculation epidemic.
We Can’t Go Home Again
Made with his students in upstate New York, Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director’s practice of filmmaking as a communal way of life, featuring Ray variously as mentor, friend, and index to his students' stories of love, rebellion, and lost innocence. Reconstructed and restored from its 1973 release, the film's unique, almost anthropological approach to multiple-image storytelling, records the history, progress, manners, and mores of everyday life at a critical moment in 1970s America.
Horror Games Night
On October 24th from 5 to 7 PM, please join the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Association for a night of flash talks and gaming at the Union's eSports Lounge! Media studies graduate students Jordon Jacobson, Emma Culver, and Alyssa Lambert …
In a Lonely Place | 35mm print!
When a washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper (Humphrey Bogart) becomes prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder, his only alibi is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged thriller is a turbulent mix of suspense-wracked noir and devastating melodrama. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love in spite of their demons, one of the greatest films of the 1950s and a benchmark in the career of the legendary Hollywood auteur.
Minamata Mandala
Filmed over fifteen years, this six-hour epic by documentarian Kazuo Hara chronicles the history of struggle for a fishing community suffering from a debilitating neurological disease caused by industrial methylmercury contamination of fish as they wage a decades-long battle for legal recognition and government reparations. A deeply humanizing portrait of the survivors, care providers, researchers, and their supporters, and a comprehensive chronicle of one of the worst environmental tragedies in human history.