THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Filmmaker in Attendance! To save their marriage, Ben and Lydia risk it all and buy a farmstead in small-town Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Lydia is determined to transform the rotting house into a dream home and... Read More
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
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission . Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers—Mofe, an electrician... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission . Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers—Mofe, an electrician... Read More
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
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
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences—phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena—Bonnetta connects their testimonies with striking 16mm images and a carefully-curated... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences—phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena—Bonnetta connects their testimonies with striking 16mm images and a carefully-curated... Read More
November 15-December 16, 2021 Visit us in person! Gallery Hours: Mon-Wed and Fri: 12pm-5pm | Thurs: 12pm-7pm Visit the exhibition online here! (direct link will show up after the exhibition opens) The Crossing Over exhibition showcases work created by undergraduate... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission In an increasingly data-driven, automated world, the question of how to protect individuals’ civil liberties in the face of artificial intelligence looms larger by the day.... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission The filmmaker transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness; at... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness; at... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Trouble begins in Vienna, with the filmmaker meeting her father, David, whom she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. She surprises him by showing him a BBC documentary that was made in... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel to pray in... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission An intense, slow-burning thriller, Western follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men’s... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she... Read More
THIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR UWM STUDENTS AND UNION CINEMA MEMBERS! $5 General Admission Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she... Read More