Two films by Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The two collaborative films by Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva, A Demonstration (2020) and Constant (2022) explore the colonial tendencies of modern science and taxonomy. The former explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world through an examination of the definitions of monstrosity... Read More

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Costa Brava, Lebanon

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

In the not-so-distant future, the free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in an idyllic mountain home. Without warning, the government starts to build a garbage landfill right outside their fence,... Read More

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The United States of America

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

James Benning’s first film called THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into... Read More

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Teorema

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

In Pasolini’s cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Terence Stamp stars as a mysterious stranger who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in... Read More

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Chess of the Wind

Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema reemerges to take its place as one of the most singular and astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolution New Wave. This... Read More

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