Union Cinema
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Experimental Tuesdays and Vernacular Film Zine Journal present: Calum Walter
Experimental Tuesdays and Vernacular Film Zine Journal present: Calum Walter
Calum Walter is an artist working in sound and moving image. His recent work has focused on human and machine error, collective anxieties, and the cultural moment shaped by emerging and consumer technologies. His films have been screened widely at film festivals including the Berlinale, Sundance, TIFF, the New York Film Festival, and IFF Rotterdam International Film Festival. Filmmaker in person.
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son in an open-ended, poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives. The audience is invited to experience the mundane and monumental, birth and death, the quotidian and the sublime. These moments combine to communicate the region’s deep culture and provide glimpses of the complex ways the African American community’s collective image is integrated into America’s visual imagination.
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The 46th Annual Latin American Film Series
UWM’s Latin American Film Series returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and the Caribbean. This year’s lineup includes a variety of dramatic, comedic, and documentary titles, with stories set in urban capitals (Lima, La Paz), rural communities (Mexico’s Michoacán, Colombia’s Caribbean coast), and places in between. Join us to explore society, history, and the human experience.
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Experimental Tuesdays presents: Alee Peoples
Experimental Tuesdays presents: Alee Peoples
Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made, Peoples has generated a collection of works on 16mm and super 8mm that are at once humorous, quietly profound, and deeply sincere. She has shown her films at venues including Edinburgh, NYFF, SFMoMA and The Pompidou Center. Filmmaker in attendance.
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The 21st Annual Italian Film Festival USA
The Italian Film Festival USA in Milwaukee is one of thirteen held nationwide. We're delighted to announce that this marks our twenty-first edition of presenting local premieres of critically acclaimed Italian films. All films are in Italian with English subtitles.
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You Burn Me
You Burn Me
An adaptation of "Sea Foam," a chapter in Cesare Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò, Piñeiro's latest is an intimate and expansive meditation on death and desire and a thrilling exploration of the possibilities of adapting text to film. In "Sea Foam," Pavese stages a fictional dialogue between the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis (played by frequent Piñeiro collaborators Gabi Saidón and María Villar). Sappho has thrown herself into the ocean from heartbreak. Britomartis has fallen off a cliff into the water while fleeing a man. Reuniting at the shore, they discuss life, death and the bittersweet nature of desire.
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Opening Night!!!
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Opening Night!!!
MUFF is a student-run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist-driven cinema. For two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms.
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50 States of Sustainability: Regenerative Agriculture & Recycling
50 States of Sustainability: Regenerative Agriculture & Recycling
Celebrate Earth Week with screenings of 50 States of Sustainability and these other events: Regenerative Agriculture & Recycling Farm Collaborative: The Farm Collaborative runs an incubation program to help young farmers practicing regenerative agriculture to succeed. Highwall Project: The Highwall …
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50 States of Sustainability: Energy Transition & Built Environments
50 States of Sustainability: Energy Transition & Built Environments
Celebrate Earth Week with screenings of 50 States of Sustainability and these other events: Energy Transition & Built Environments Are Renewables Reliable? - Bigger Picture: Amory Lovins, Founder of The Rocky Mountain Institute, reflects on the potential of renewable energy …
Experimental Tuesdays presents: Marianna Milhorat, Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Experimental Tuesdays presents: Marianna Milhorat, Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
The film is a visceral, sensory meditation on what it means to live in a broken world. Milhorat has presented her work at venues including the IFF Rotterdam, Whitechapel Gallery, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Filmmaker in attendance.
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50 States of Sustainability: Electric Vehicles
50 States of Sustainability: Electric Vehicles
Celebrate Earth Week with screenings of 50 States of Sustainability and these other events: Electric Vehicles Beta Technologies: Beta Technologies in Vermont is building a zero emission battery powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (aka eVTOL) as they move toward …
Animation Showcase
Animation Showcase
Programmed by Senior Lecturer Brooke Thiele and Area Head of Animation, Laura Harrison, the selected student work demonstrates creative expression and highlights passion for animation in all forms: 2D, stop motion, cutout and 3D animation. Come and show your support for the animation area and future animators/filmmakers of today.
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50 States of Sustainability: Renewable Energy
50 States of Sustainability: Renewable Energy
Celebrate Earth Week with screenings of 50 States of Sustainability and these other events: Renewable Energy Agrivoltaics: Jacks Solar Garden is a farm in Colorado that produces food and generates energy via Agrivoltaics. Deep Geothermal: Quaise Energy's "millimeter wave" drilling …
Happy Cleaners
Happy Cleaners
Thursday, April 24 | Film Screening 6PM | Union Cinema “Happy Cleaners,” directed by Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee, follows a Korean-American family running a dry cleaning business in Queens, New York, as they navigate the pressures of cultural …
Happy Cleaners
Happy Cleaners
Mr. and Mrs. Choi own and operate Happy Cleaners, the family dry cleaning business. Mr. Choi has been working at the cleaners for seventeen years, and was fortunate enough to take over the business. Though they have been doing this menial work for many years, they work diligently to support themselves and their children -- of whom they have high hopes and aspirations. The family dry cleaning business - the very source of the family's income as well as the symbol of all their hopes - is in jeopardy of loss, and the Choi Family members must react. Quickly.
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Annette
Annette
Henry is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann, a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. With the birth of their first child -- a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny -- their lives are turned upside down.
Frances Ha
Frances Ha
Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
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Frances Ha
Frances Ha
Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
Annette
Annette
Henry is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann, a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. With the birth of their first child -- a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny -- their lives are turned upside down.
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Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Give Chance a Chance
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Give Chance a Chance
An experiment in cooperation, exhibition and pedagogy, Give Chance a Chance is a collaboratively conceived and constructed program devised by the participants in the Indeterminacy graduate seminar. Unexpect the expected.
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Typhoon Club
Typhoon Club
Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city. Set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes—part apocalypse, part utopia—as the deluge rages on into the night. Observed in daring long takes, director Somai gives material form to the students’ turbulent inner lives. When day breaks and the rains let up, the youngsters open their eyes to a world in ruins—or a world renewed.
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50 Feet Of String
50 Feet Of String
A 12-section film that invites viewers into a more visceral and less verbally analytical state of mind. The "action," small events like the mail arriving, the storm coming, and the grass getting mowed, are secondary to the way of perceiving those events. In many ways, this film reaches back into a kind of personal memory one might recall from early childhood.
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Memory Lane
Memory Lane
Memory Lane is screening as part of Artistic Representations of Aging, an annual event hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Helen Bader Office of Applied Gerontology highlighting resilience in the older adult community through a photography exhibition and amateur competition, feature film screening in partnership with Milwaukee Film, and a panel discussion from experts on aging. The photography exhibition and amateur competition explores the theme “Reflections of Resilience,” calling attention to older adults in a variety of contexts with subjects including strength and adaptability, service, engagement, relationships, and artistic expression.
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The Honeymoon Killers
The Honeymoon Killers
Martha Beck is sullen, overweight, and lonely. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie’s Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez, a charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a degenerate con artist. Based on a shocking true story and shot in documentary-style black and white by the confident and inspired Leonard Kastle, in what would be his only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.
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