Friday April 4th - Monday April 28th
April 4-11
7pm each night. Free
30th Annual Latin American Film Festival, UWM Union Theatre
co-sponsored by Film Department
Related links:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/
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Wednesday, April 9, 7pm Arts Lecture Hall
Artists Now
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Thursday, April 10 7pm
CMP’s Disparities & Misconception series
Black Holocaust Museum, 2233 N 4th Street
sponsored by the Black Holocaust Museum, Cultures & Communities, & the Community Media Project.
Dark Exodus (Iverson White, 28min., 1985)
April 4-11
7pm each night. Free
30th Annual Latin American Film Festival, UWM Union Theatre
co-sponsored by Film Department
Related links:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/
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Wednesday, April 9, 7pm Arts Lecture Hall
Artists Now
Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani: Desire for Magic
Nagatani, who is both a photographer and a painter who works in the medium of masking tape, will show selected work from various serirs - 20X24 Polaroid Collaborations, Nuclear Enchantment, Excavations, Chromatherapy and his latest body of work, Tape-estries. As the consumate story teller, he will attempt to demystify some of the narratives while revealing source material from his readings and working processes."I hope to challenge us to examine the ways in which photography creates, recreates, or supports a particular history," Nagatani said. "Finally, I am interested in beauty, desire, wonderment, possibilities, and an audience that is willing to suspend belief, to use the right hemisphere of the brain as much as the left."
Nagatani, who is both a photographer and a painter who works in the medium of masking tape, will show selected work from various serirs - 20X24 Polaroid Collaborations, Nuclear Enchantment, Excavations, Chromatherapy and his latest body of work, Tape-estries. As the consumate story teller, he will attempt to demystify some of the narratives while revealing source material from his readings and working processes."I hope to challenge us to examine the ways in which photography creates, recreates, or supports a particular history," Nagatani said. "Finally, I am interested in beauty, desire, wonderment, possibilities, and an audience that is willing to suspend belief, to use the right hemisphere of the brain as much as the left."
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Thursday, April 10 7pm
CMP’s Disparities & Misconception series
Black Holocaust Museum, 2233 N 4th Street
sponsored by the Black Holocaust Museum, Cultures & Communities, & the Community Media Project.
Dark Exodus (Iverson White, 28min., 1985)
Iverson White’s film focuses on how a family copes with one of the members being the victim of a lynching as they struggle to adjust to migrating from the South to the North in the early 1900s.
Related links:
http://www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com
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Friday, April 11
5-8 PM
FILM 116 's Foundation Exhibition opening
Union Art Gallery
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
The list of participating artists:
Sam Karow, "Manipulation"
Eric Fritz, "Lava Lamp"
Corey Finnigan, "Asks: Part Three"
Eddie Roberts, untitled
Joe Gilliland-Lloyd, "Milwaukee Montage"
David Ortiz, "Long Walk"
Christopher Mainland, "Over the Tracks"
Andrew Page, "State Law"
Emily Sherman, untitled
Colleen Kwok, untitled
Brandi Stone, "Surrounded"
Derrick Markowski, "Graphic Matching"
James Stukenberg, "Medley"
Shane Connolly, "Trapped By A Road Sign"
Quinn Hester, "The Final Visit"
Lydell Peterson, "Judgment Day Jogger"
Elly Liebsch, "Flashy Fishy"
Bryan Cera, untitled
Meg Strobel, "Don't You Little Bird, Don't Cry"
Desten Johnson, "Cart-a-thon"
Friday, April 11
5-8 PM
FILM 116 's Foundation Exhibition opening
Union Art Gallery
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
The list of participating artists:
Sam Karow, "Manipulation"
Eric Fritz, "Lava Lamp"
Corey Finnigan, "Asks: Part Three"
Eddie Roberts, untitled
Joe Gilliland-Lloyd, "Milwaukee Montage"
David Ortiz, "Long Walk"
Christopher Mainland, "Over the Tracks"
Andrew Page, "State Law"
Emily Sherman, untitled
Colleen Kwok, untitled
Brandi Stone, "Surrounded"
Derrick Markowski, "Graphic Matching"
James Stukenberg, "Medley"
Shane Connolly, "Trapped By A Road Sign"
Quinn Hester, "The Final Visit"
Lydell Peterson, "Judgment Day Jogger"
Elly Liebsch, "Flashy Fishy"
Bryan Cera, untitled
Meg Strobel, "Don't You Little Bird, Don't Cry"
Desten Johnson, "Cart-a-thon"
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Monday, April 14
7pm UWM Union Theatre, free
7pm UWM Union Theatre, free
Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1990) with
Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien, 1988)
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Tuesday, April 15
7pm Union Theatre
Visiting Artist Craig Baldwin!
MOCK UP ON MU (16mm to BetaSP, 117 mins.., 2008)
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Tuesday, April 15
7pm Union Theatre
Visiting Artist Craig Baldwin!
MOCK UP ON MU (16mm to BetaSP, 117 mins.., 2008)
A radically hybridized mash-up of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres,
Mu…musters the creative audacity—make that recklessness—to take up within its absurdly impossible collage-narrative agency the profoundly serious issue
of Technological Ethics, namely, the militarization of space.
(Mostly) Based on historical fact—the occult sex rituals of 3 seminal figures
in post-War California (JPL founder Jack Parsons, L.Ron Hubbard, and Marjorie Cameron), the incorrigible Baldwin promiscuously mixes his own desert-shot live-action footage with both fiction and non-fiction archival material to weave a dense tale
of mind-control, subterranean intrigue, and scientific speculation out of the 3 (or 99?) thematic threads of aerospace, alternative religion, and Beat sub-culture…
and in pulp-serial form to boot!
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World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Friday April 18 - Saturday April19, 2008
World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Center for International Education will hold its annual academic conference on April 18-19, 2008. "World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media" seeks to explore the way in which various art and media practices construct our understanding and experience of the world across literal and metaphoric places, screens, and frames. It explores the capacity of art and media practices - print, film, literature, television, architecture, internet culture, and digital art - to create distinctive senses of place, space and time and endeavors to think about social relations, aesthetic orders, language systems, and citizenship within and beyond the nation-state.
The Conference will be held at the Hefter Center at 3271 North Lake Drive (a short walk from UWM's campus). Click on Directions for a map. Please note that David Wilson's lecture on Friday 18 April (7:30 - 9:00 pm) will take place in Curtin Hall, room 175.
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Thursday – Sunday, April 18-20
UWM Union Theatre
2200 E. Kenwood
Part 1 1pm each day; Part 2 6pm each day
Taiga
(Ulrike Ottinger, Germany/Mongolia, in Mongolian and German w/ English subtitles, 501 min. 35mm, 1993)
Co-presented by UWM Union Theatre & UWM Film Department
Friday, April 18
6pm KSE, 4th Floor
SENSATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARTS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.
April 18, 2008 at 6 pm (Room 412)
Sensorium
A Conversation with Sissel Tolaas and Caroline A. Jones
Monday, April 21
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
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Thursday, April 24
7pm Cream City Collective, 732 E. Clarke St.
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
A bientôt j'espère / Be Seeing You (Mario Marret & Chris Marker; produced by SLON, 16mm on vhs, 39 min., 1968) A documentary of and a conversation with the striking workers of Rhodiaceta, a textile plant owned by the Rhone-Poulenc trust in the city of Besançon, France. Refusing to disassociate the industrial conflict from a social and cultural agenda, the striking workers' demands concerned not only salary and job security, but also the very lifestyle imposed on them by society. Produced by SLON, which translates as the "Company for the Launching of New Works. Marker was a member of this filmmaking collective from 1967-1976. Presented as part of a cross-city celebration of films by Chris Marker
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Friday, April 25
7pm $2 Woodland Pattern Experimental Film /Video series
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust, 414 263 5001
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
The Embassy (super8 on DVD, 21 min., 1973)
One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, The Embassy, shot in Super8 in the wake of the coup d’etat in Chile in 1972, shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assault-teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians-arrive at the embassy.
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Chris Marker & François Reichenbach, 16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 26 min., 1967) Marker’s doc on the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. "If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side." -- Zen proverb
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“On vous parle de Paris: Maspero, Les mots ont?un sens” (Report on Paris:
Maspero: Words have a sense.)
(16mm on DVD, in French with live English translation, b&w, 20min., 1970) A
portrait of editor/publisher and political activist François Maspero,
considered heroic for his stalwart publication of works challenging France’s
position in Algeria. One of Marker’s contributions to a serial film magazine, a
series of newreels subtitled “Magazine of Counter-Information” that was produced
by the collective SLON as a way to offer an alternative media in its coverage of
and commentary on world news and political, social, and cultural figures.
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Thursday, APRIL 24
Climbing Poetree
7pm, UWM Union Wisconsin Room, with their two womyn production, "Hurricane Season."
Co-sponsored by the Community Media Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z6Yx_27qs&feature=related
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Monday, April 28
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
Thursday – Sunday, April 18-20
UWM Union Theatre
2200 E. Kenwood
Part 1 1pm each day; Part 2 6pm each day
Taiga
(Ulrike Ottinger, Germany/Mongolia, in Mongolian and German w/ English subtitles, 501 min. 35mm, 1993)
Co-presented by UWM Union Theatre & UWM Film Department
Taiga is Ulrike Ottinger’s epic 8 hour documentary shot within Mongolia. Focusing on the daily lives of the Darchad nomads and the Tuvan people of the North, Ottinger observes their shamanic rituals, celebrations, hunting expeditions and real Mongolian barbecues among other aspects of their nomadic existence amidst spellbinding landscapes. Taiga mirrors the slow, unhurried pace of Mongolian life.
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Friday, April 18
6pm KSE, 4th Floor
SENSATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARTS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.
April 18, 2008 at 6 pm (Room 412)
Sensorium
A Conversation with Sissel Tolaas and Caroline A. Jones
“Sensorium," a talk by Caroline Jones (Professor and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program, Department of Architecture, MIT). The talk is paired with an installation by and discussion with conceptual artist Sissel Tolaas, whose work explores the sense of smell.
Sissel Tolaas (b. Norway, 1961) is a Berlin-based artist who has been working,
researching and experimenting intensively with the topic of smell since 1990. She
has developed revolutionary projects with smells and fragrances based upon her own knowledge of chemical science, mathematics, linguistics and languages, and visual art. Her installations have exhibited all over the world, and she has consulted with companies and institutions such as Cartier, Louis Vuitton, COMME des GARCONS,
Estee Lauder, Chrysler Future, The Boston Consulting Group, ZH/Berlin, Bayers-Schering Inc., and the San Francisco Neurosciences Institute. In January of 2004, she established the research lab, IFF re_searchLab Berlin, on smell & communication, which is supported by IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) Inc., New York. The Lab conducts research on the topic of smell/olfactory and smell-communication for the purpose of trying to change the existing approach to “our noses and smells and the process of smelling.“
Caroline A. Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. Professor of art history and director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in the Department of Architecture
at MIT, she has also worked as an essayist and curator, most recently with MIT’s List Visual Art Center on Video Trajectories. She held positions at The Museum of Modern
Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85) prior to completing her PhD at Stanford University in 1992. Her exhibitions and/or films have been shown at MoMA and Harvard as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and the Hara
Museum Tokyo, among other venues; her publications include Sensorium (as editor, 2006), Eyesight Alone (2005), Machine in the Studio (1996/98), and the co-edited volume Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998). A frequent contributor to Artforum, Jones’s
current research into globalism informs her next book on contemporary art, the world picture, and what she calls “biennial culture.”
April 18-19, 2008 (KSE Room 463)
Sissel Tolaas: Fear 9
scent-based installation
Gallery Night & Day
Friday, April 18, 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, noon-5 pm
Sissel Tolaas: Fear 9
scent-based installation
Gallery Night & Day
Friday, April 18, 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, noon-5 pm
Sissel Tolaas (b. Norway, 1961) is a Berlin-based artist who has been working,
researching and experimenting intensively with the topic of smell since 1990. She
has developed revolutionary projects with smells and fragrances based upon her own knowledge of chemical science, mathematics, linguistics and languages, and visual art. Her installations have exhibited all over the world, and she has consulted with companies and institutions such as Cartier, Louis Vuitton, COMME des GARCONS,
Estee Lauder, Chrysler Future, The Boston Consulting Group, ZH/Berlin, Bayers-Schering Inc., and the San Francisco Neurosciences Institute. In January of 2004, she established the research lab, IFF re_searchLab Berlin, on smell & communication, which is supported by IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) Inc., New York. The Lab conducts research on the topic of smell/olfactory and smell-communication for the purpose of trying to change the existing approach to “our noses and smells and the process of smelling.“
Caroline A. Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. Professor of art history and director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in the Department of Architecture
at MIT, she has also worked as an essayist and curator, most recently with MIT’s List Visual Art Center on Video Trajectories. She held positions at The Museum of Modern
Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85) prior to completing her PhD at Stanford University in 1992. Her exhibitions and/or films have been shown at MoMA and Harvard as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and the Hara
Museum Tokyo, among other venues; her publications include Sensorium (as editor, 2006), Eyesight Alone (2005), Machine in the Studio (1996/98), and the co-edited volume Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998). A frequent contributor to Artforum, Jones’s
current research into globalism informs her next book on contemporary art, the world picture, and what she calls “biennial culture.”
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Monday, April 21
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986)
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Thursday, April 24
7pm Cream City Collective, 732 E. Clarke St.
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
A bientôt j'espère / Be Seeing You (Mario Marret & Chris Marker; produced by SLON, 16mm on vhs, 39 min., 1968) A documentary of and a conversation with the striking workers of Rhodiaceta, a textile plant owned by the Rhone-Poulenc trust in the city of Besançon, France. Refusing to disassociate the industrial conflict from a social and cultural agenda, the striking workers' demands concerned not only salary and job security, but also the very lifestyle imposed on them by society. Produced by SLON, which translates as the "Company for the Launching of New Works. Marker was a member of this filmmaking collective from 1967-1976. Presented as part of a cross-city celebration of films by Chris Marker
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Friday, April 25
7pm $2 Woodland Pattern Experimental Film /Video series
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust, 414 263 5001
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
The Embassy (super8 on DVD, 21 min., 1973)
One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, The Embassy, shot in Super8 in the wake of the coup d’etat in Chile in 1972, shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assault-teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians-arrive at the embassy.
&
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Chris Marker & François Reichenbach, 16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 26 min., 1967) Marker’s doc on the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. "If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side." -- Zen proverb
&
“On vous parle de Paris: Maspero, Les mots ont?un sens” (Report on Paris:
Maspero: Words have a sense.)
(16mm on DVD, in French with live English translation, b&w, 20min., 1970) A
portrait of editor/publisher and political activist François Maspero,
considered heroic for his stalwart publication of works challenging France’s
position in Algeria. One of Marker’s contributions to a serial film magazine, a
series of newreels subtitled “Magazine of Counter-Information” that was produced
by the collective SLON as a way to offer an alternative media in its coverage of
and commentary on world news and political, social, and cultural figures.
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Thursday, APRIL 24
Climbing Poetree
7pm, UWM Union Wisconsin Room, with their two womyn production, "Hurricane Season."
Co-sponsored by the Community Media Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z6Yx_27qs&feature=related
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Monday, April 28
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
