Desert Hearts

Virtual Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of... Read More

Cooked

Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents—mostly elderly and black—died over the course of one week. As COOKED links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the... Read More

MUFF Opening Night– Cecelia Condit Retrospective

Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Milwaukee Underground Film Festival 20th Anniversary Opening Night! Join us for an evening of work by former UWM faculty member, TikTok star and practicing moving image artist Cecelia Condit! Artist (virtually) in attendance! https://www.ceceliacondit.com/... Read More

Laida Lertxundi

Union Cinema

THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Laida Lertxundi’s (Spain, LA) films are a delicate combination and celebration of landscape, feminist perspectives, literature, music, objects, and portraiture. These 16mm explorations are both lush and quizzical as they question and challenge our domestic,... Read More

From The Archives: Sculptors in Tears

Union Cinema

  THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! This program will feature 16mm films from the UWM Film Department's Cinema Arts Archive employing tactile methods to create film objects relating to ideas of ruins, the passage of time, and showing emotion.... Read More