Simone: Woman of the Century

Union Cinema

Festival of Films in French  Explores the life of Simone Veil — the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist — through a series of non-chronological memories.... Read More

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Films by Larry Gottheim

Union Cinema

FILMMAKER IN PERSON! ON 16MM! One of the fundamental figures of American avant-garde cinema, Larry Gottheim has composed a diverse body of work over the span of 50 years. His films stretch the boundaries of cinema as a vessel for... Read More

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Class Relations & En rachâchant

Union Cinema

Straub-Huillet’s brilliant distillation of Franz Kafka’s incomplete first novel Amerika is perhaps the most authentically German treatment of Kafka ever made. An ecstatic and haunted fever dream of the United States — the place where Kafka longed to disappear, if... Read More

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Wavelength

Union Cinema

On 16mm! Programmed in memory of Michael Snow and in conjunction with Microlights Cinema. Wavelength consists of a single, fitful zoom across his New York loft space. The zoom’s compression of time and space serves as a through- line that... Read More

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Pacifiction

Union Cinema

Milwaukee Premiere! On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the... Read More

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