Santiago Muñoz is a film and video maker, and the uncontrived, observational style of her art aligns it with the sensibility of documentary film while also blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Despite its ostensible simplicity, Santiago Muñoz’s work... Read More
A furious cry of resistance against racist oppression and a revolutionary landmark of political cinema, this feature debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, dazzlingly experimental attack on capitalism and the legacy of colonialism. Soleil Ô follows a starry-eyed... Read More
In his dynamic feature debut, Fern Silva examines myriad encounters with an island world at sea. Drawing from subjects as seemingly disparate as the arrival of Christian missionaries and the controversial casting of Dwayne Johnson as King Kamehameha, the film... Read More
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, Babettes's Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak... Read More
4K RESTORATION! Juzo Itami's rapturous "ramen western" returns to U.S. screens for the first time in decades. The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the... Read More
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, Babettes’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak... Read More
4K RESTORATION! Juzo Itami’s rapturous “ramen western” returns to U.S. screens for the first time in decades. The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the... Read More
Curated by MFA candidate Sarah Ballard, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department's Cinema Arts Archive. cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres
New 4K Restoration Criminally underseen for over three decades, Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter,... Read More
On 16mm SNOW IS THIS parlays an elegantly simple concept into an unpredictable, cumulatively rich experience. "The film is a text in which each shot is a single word, tightly-framed white letters against a black background. Compared to Snow's recent... Read More