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March 2019
From the Archives: Betty & Barbie
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Presented on 16mm Film! Tales of childhood, sexuality, discovery, fantasy, frozen and thawing bodies are told as we go down the rabbit hole. Artists unspooled to include Max Fleischer, Vincent Grenier, Cathy Cook, and more! Curated…
Find out more »Genesis 2.0
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Milwaukee Premiere! In this documentary by Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths on the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic…
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Tomorrow Never Knows
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Filmmaker in Attendance! A sensitive and personal documentary looking at the life and death of Shar Jones, a transgender person living with early onset Alzheimer's Disease,…
Find out more »The Juniper Tree
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission New 4k Restoration! An unsung talent in her lifetime, director, professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka Keene’s stark, stunning debut feature The Juniper Tree is loosely based on a…
Find out more »Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission New 2k Restoration! Made on a miniscule budget, this erotic drama chronicles the coming of age of an awkward, midwestern girl who wants nothing so much…
Find out more »The Juniper Tree
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission New 4k Restoration! An unsung talent in her lifetime, director, professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka Keene’s stark, stunning debut feature The Juniper Tree is loosely based on a…
Find out more »Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission New 2k Restoration! Made on a miniscule budget, this erotic drama chronicles the coming of age of an awkward, midwestern girl who wants nothing so much…
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The Walls (Mathilukal)
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Presented on 35mm Film! Walls is a 1990 Indian feature film written directed and produced by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Based on his autobiographical novella, this film centers on Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, an outspoken writer in 1940s…
Find out more »April 2019
Dark Matter: Collective, Singular and Parodic Resistance
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Military coups; civil wars; authoritarian regimes; U.S. led invasions: experimental cinema in Latin America has not escaped the impact of such ongoing forms of social upheaval. In many of these contexts, resistant social commentary…
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On the Basis of Sex
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! On the Basis of Sex chronicles Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s incredible true story, as a struggling attorney and new mother who faces adversity and numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights. Ruth takes on…
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