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Regrouping
Regrouping
Experimental Tuesdays / FREE FOR EVERYONE While Lizzie Borden’s features Born in Flames and Working Girls have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut, the fascinating experimental documentary Regrouping, has gone largely unseen. A multi-layered, self-reflexive portrait …
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McFarland, USA
McFarland, USA
Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with us at a special screening highlighting determination, community, and the transformative power of running. This inspiring film tells a true story of resilience and achievement in a small Latine community, emphasizing the importance of culture and unity in overcoming challenges.
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Joker: Folie A Deux – Fall Film Premiere
Joker: Folie A Deux – Fall Film Premiere
Join us for our Fall Film Premiere as we travel to Marcus Cinema to see Joker: Folie Á Deux featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga!
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Trenque Lauquen
Trenque Lauquen
Rafael and Ezequiel set out to find Laura after learning about her mysterious disappearance, discovering that they only know one side of her personality.
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Trenque Lauquen
Trenque Lauquen
Rafael and Ezequiel set out to find Laura after learning about her mysterious disappearance, discovering that they only know one side of her personality.
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Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones.
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The Worth of Water: A Great Lakes Story
The Worth of Water: A Great Lakes Story
This feature-length documentary follows the co-creators of Walk to Sustain Our Great Lakes, Julia Robson and Alyssa Armbruster, as they embark on their 343-mile walk from the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI to Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The two women interview political leaders, educators, activists and professionals to help bring a greater understanding of the issues the Great Lakes face, as well as highlight the progress made in restoring the lakes since the establishment of the Clean Water Act in 1972.
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Film Faculty & Staff Screening
Film Faculty & Staff Screening
FREE FOR EVERYONE! Get to know the creative work of the Film, Video, Animation & 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 …
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Something You Said Last Night
Something You Said Last Night
An aspiring writer in her twenties, Ren and her younger sister Siena reluctantly accompany their parents on a family vacation. Siena parties all night long, but the more reserved Ren is left to her own devices.
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Something You Said Last Night
Something You Said Last Night
An aspiring writer in her twenties, Ren and her younger sister Siena reluctantly accompany their parents on a family vacation. Siena parties all night long, but the more reserved Ren is left to her own devices.
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Direct Action
Direct Action
Direct Action is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective.
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Far From Home
Far From Home
With only his fellow immigrant housemates as a patchwork community, Husseyin perseveres with quiet dignity in the face of an alienating country.
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El Sur
El Sur
Estrella Arenas, a rural Spanish teenager with a rich imagination, dreams of her mysterious father Agustín, a man who in recent years has drifted away from her. Estrella struggles to piece together Agustín's secret history and recalls her family's sudden unexplained move from Seville, Spain, to the northern countryside in her youth.
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Spirit of the Beehive
Spirit of the Beehive
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a Frankenstein movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Close Your Eyes
Close Your Eyes
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
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Close Your Eyes
Close Your Eyes
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Spirit of the Beehive
Spirit of the Beehive
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a Frankenstein movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
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From The Archives
From The Archives
Curated by MFA candidate Tom Dixon, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department’s Cinema Arts Archive.
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Brick and Mirror
Brick and Mirror
When a mysterious woman abandons a baby in the backseat of his cab one night, Tehran taxi driver Hashem is launched on a journey through the city’s unfeeling bureaucracy as he attempts to find a home for the infant—a situation that soon puts him in conflict with his nurturing girlfriend Taji.
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Return To Reason
Return To Reason
The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929 represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism.
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Clean Shaven
Clean Shaven
A compelling headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution. Kerrigan's film brilliantly uses sound and image to lead audiences into a terrifying subjectivity. No one is left unscathed.
Possession
Possession
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions.
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Possession
Possession
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions.
Clean Shaven
Clean Shaven
A compelling headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution. Kerrigan's film brilliantly uses sound and image to lead audiences into a terrifying subjectivity. No one is left unscathed.
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Birds, Clocks, and Toolboxes: Short films by Lisa Truttmann
Birds, Clocks, and Toolboxes: Short films by Lisa Truttmann
Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures.
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Onibaba
Onibaba
Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, a mother and daughter-in-law dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba is a singular cinematic experience.
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The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project
Found video footage tells the tale of three film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams) who've traveled to a small town to collect documentary footage about the Blair Witch, a legendary local murderer. Over the course of several days, the students interview townspeople and gather clues to support the tale's veracity. But the project takes a frightening turn when the students lose their way in the woods and begin hearing horrific noises.
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About Dry Grasses
About Dry Grasses
Nestled away in an isolated town, art teacher Samet yearns to leave the sleepy village for Istanbul and is soon forced to confront what he can't accept.
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About Dry Grasses
About Dry Grasses
Nestled away in an isolated town, art teacher Samet yearns to leave the sleepy village for Istanbul and is soon forced to confront what he can't accept.