A hallucinatory portrait of a man traveling from Finland to Greece in search of the utopian summit described in René Daumal's "Mount Analogue " (1952) - a fictional mountain floating in the sea. Equal parts non-fiction cinema, concert film, road... Read More
African American Film Series - Film followed by post-film discussion Declining participation leads two Milwaukee area high schools—one black and urban, the other white and suburban—to combine their football programs. Tensions rise as the disparities between the two schools become... Read More
Get to know the output and inner minds of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected. Many of the artists, your teachers, will be... Read More
Get to know the output and inner minds of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected. Many of the artists, your teachers, will be... Read More
Amy Halpern Series / on 16mm! A stunningly sensual, life-affirming experience from a major experimental film artist that is open to a myriad of meanings. The film is a rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern... Read More
Amy Halpern Series / on 16mm! The maker of nearly forty short films and one feature film, Amy Halpern was born and raised in NYC and lived and worked in Los Angeles for more than 40 years. Amy’s films are... Read More
New Restoration! The SFG formed in April 1989 with a mission statement that pledged “to uphold the enlightening role of cinema against the armies of darkness.” Comprised of cinéastes frustrated with the limitations of Sudanese state-sponsored filmmaking, they imagined a... Read More
Two Films by Hong Sang-soo series In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and then move away from one another. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture.... Read More
Two Films by Hong Sangsoo series - Milwaukee Premiere! For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters... Read More
On 16mm! An exploration of films that engage with the archival images and the archive as an institution. How is history presented & refigured through artistic intervention? This screening will combine classic and contemporary works of experimental cinema. Curated by... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic. The film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived on the island for over 40 years as... Read More
Festival of Films in French On the stage of Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes, offering a dynamic take on the landmark opera. Presented as part of the... Read More
Festival of Films in French Talkback with Rachel Baum (Deputy Director, Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies) Based on Michel Kichka’s autobiographical graphic novel, this animation film, in which two young Jewish brothers growing up happily in Belgium in the 1960s want to know about their father’s past, is about breaking the silences that often prevail between the survivors of the Holocaust and their children. Co-sponsored by the Sam & Helen... Read More
Festival of Films in French The documentary captures the plight of the African American soldiers who fought for democracy abroad in segregated US Army troops through archival film footage, letters written from the Front, and the experiences of soldiers who received the French Croix de guerre for their distinguished service and faced discrimination and white supremacist violence when they returned to the US in 1919. Co-sponsored by... Read More
Festival of Films in French Talkback with Tami Williams (Film Studies program, Department of English) A young researcher is passionate about her work as assistant to a tuberculosis specialist. Her dedication arouses the jealousy of her husband who asks her... Read More
Festival of Films in French Adapted from Balzac's eponymous novel Illusions perdues (1837-43), and resonating with our times, the period drama is set in 1821 in Paris, where Lucien Rubempré, the idealistic young poet from Angoulême, succeeds as a gifted... Read More
Festival of Films in French In this political satire about image and power, Arlette Saint-Amour, a fashion magazine editor, is invited by the Premier of Quebec to join his cabinet as minister of culture. Ambitious and inexperienced, Arlette incurs the wrath of the finance minister with her unconventional politics and use of the media to reinvigorate the arts. (Mariloup Wolfe, Québec, French w/English sub, 118min, 2022, Digital) Co-sponsored by the... Read More
Festival of Films in French Andaboy is a sacred beach in southwestern Madagascar. Ancestors say the beach should be left untouched, as a shamanic musician sings in trance. The local fishermen are concerned when Australian company Base Toliara proposes building... Read More
Festival of Films in French In Northern Italy, in the early 1900s, the Ughettos dream of leaving the region, where life has become unbearably difficult. As a fictional dialogue between grandmother Cesira and her grandson-director, the poignant animation film follows the family’s exile over three generations after they cross the Alps and settle in France. (Alain Ughetto, France and Italy, French and Italian w/English sub, 70min, 2022, Digital) Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Studies
FILMMAKER IN PERSON! ON 16MM! One of the fundamental figures of American avant-garde cinema, Larry Gottheim has composed a diverse body of work over the span of 50 years. His films stretch the boundaries of cinema as a vessel for... Read More
Straub-Huillet’s brilliant distillation of Franz Kafka’s incomplete first novel Amerika is perhaps the most authentically German treatment of Kafka ever made. An ecstatic and haunted fever dream of the United States — the place where Kafka longed to disappear, if... Read More
On 16mm! Programmed in memory of Michael Snow and in conjunction with Microlights Cinema. Wavelength consists of a single, fitful zoom across his New York loft space. The zoom’s compression of time and space serves as a through- line that... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the... Read More