FREE FOR EVERYONE / on 16mm! James Benning’s Ten Skies is a film both simple and vast in its construction. It is comprised of ten shots of ten skies, each lasting for ten minutes and each shot on 16mm around... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! This film in three parts explores traditions in rural Albania and the role of women in society. The project begins by describing the filmmaker’s relationship to the country and an unwanted personal sacrifice which solidifies this connection. The... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and... Read More
Alan Rudolph's LA The characters in Alan Rudolph’s multilayered romantic comedy interact within a film noir of deception, love, and sex among the night people of Los Angeles. Keith Carradine stars as a mental patient with a mysterious past who... Read More
Alan Rudolph's LA Welcome to L.A., the city of the one-night stand. The arrival of musician Carroll Barber to L.A. kicks off a chain of loosely related affairs and double-crosses among a group of upper-class Angelenos all looking to be... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! A public program of newly digitized films from the Cinenova collection addressing representations of gender, race, sexuality, health and community. The Work We Share gathers a number of films which previously existed in precarious conditions; in some cases,... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! As an excursion to the work of botanical and film preservation, Herbaria explores in its invisible processes the artistic and political derivations that connect them. Sustained in a narration where times and spaces seem to merge, the records... Read More
2 by Hou Hsiao-Hsien / New Restoration! A rediscovered gem in the filmography of Hou Hsiao-hsien Daughter of the Nile is a neon-lit, contemporary drama named after a Japanese manga series. With Hou's gentle but keen observation, the film follows... Read More
2 by Hou Hsiao-Hsien/ New Restoration! An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a late... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE In conjunction with a Master Class to be held Friday, October 20th in Mitchell B91, Short Ends Magazine and Experimental Tuesdays present a program of short films by Michael Robinson's career. Michael Robinson is a film, video... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE Selections From the 2023 Cosmic Rays Film Festival: A program of contemporary short films that probe the limits of representation. These films cut across the generic boundaries of documentary and fiction, the social boundaries of the personal... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE / Close Encounters / African American Film Series Rancher OJ Haywood struggles to keep his business ― the only Black-owned horse trainers in Tinseltown ― afloat. OJ’s sister and assistant, Emerald, arrives late for a commercial shoot... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! / Close Encounters After the novelist and screenwriter Whitley Strieber (an absolutely unhinged Christopher Walken) takes his family from their NYC apartment to an Upstate cabin for a holiday escape, they experience a strange light show in the... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! / Close Encounters An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visitations to Earth and Earth’s self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE Experimental Tuesdays presents a program of two Palestinian filmmakers, Basma Alsharif and Rosalind Nashashibi. These two artists use poetic, personal, and essayistic strategies to address the experiences of Palestinian people. Basma al-Sharif is a Palestinian artist... Read More
Share the Earth Environmental Film Series/FREE FOR EVERYONE/Milwaukee Premiere! A young Navajo filmmaker travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In... Read More
Horror Weekend/FREE FOR EVERYONE Brace yourselves for another Halloween-themed showcase of student films and videos from the Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres. This screening promises to dazzle you with the spookiest, scariest, grossest, and most otherworldly student creations. Student Filmmakers in... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE/Horror Weekend/On 35mm! Denis brings her brand of cinematic intimacy to the horror genre, and the result is, unsurprisingly, shocking. Trouble Every Day is a different kind of vampire movie, a vivid and sensuous—and very gory—tale of all-consuming... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE/Horror Weekend/On 35mm! In a remote military outpost in the 19th Century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal. “Amid a... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE / on 16mm! Curated by MFA candidate Milton Hugo Secchi, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department’s Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the... Read More
By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train.“Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that, we use the other number with no... Read More
Two by Christian Petzold While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised by the presence of Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix’s family’s holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing... Read More
Two by Christian Petzold In Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he... Read More