University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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

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

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

New Restoration! Nobuhiro Suwa’s second feature and breakout film telescopes in on the seemingly mannered, domestic life of a young couple – Kei, a cash-strapped aspiring actor and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store – and finds... Read More

New 4K Restoration! A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are... Read More

2 x 16mm projection, filmmaker present "Stubbornly looking at the ruins of a commune we search for auguries. For instance: ‘Fair weather for drifters. We wander by foot across times, erratically shooting images and recording sounds through the kaleidoscopic spatiality... Read More

December 1969, Thelonious Monk arrives in Paris. Before his evening concert, he records a program for French television. The rushes that have been preserved show us a Thelonious Monk who is rare, close, and in the grip of the violent... Read More

Programmed by Jesse Malmed / on 16mm! Let's start with some big pronouncements: before film wasn't film it was film and film was a lot of things, like light, like sound, like projection psychological and literal, like plastic, like ribbon.... Read More

New 2K Restoration! In the waning days of second-wave feminism and its anti-pornography discourse, Bette Gordon directed her second feature, about a young woman, Christine, who takes a job as a ticket taker at a Times Square porno theater. There... Read More

New 4K Restoration! A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured... Read More