Thursday April 24th - Saturday May 10th
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Thursday, April 24
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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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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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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Saturday, April 26
THE 7th ANNUAL UMALI AWARDS
Presented in conjunction with Indexical Frontiers
April 26, 2008 at 7:30 pm -- SATURDAY
Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave. (across from Izumi's)
Semi-formal attire requested.
Improvements this year:
Monday, April 28
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
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TUESDAY, APRIL 29
at 7pm features the producers, professors and students who made the POETRY EVERYWHERE films at Harry Schwartz on Downer showing the films and talking about how we made them. Local poets whose work is featured will be there to read their poems, too. April is National Poetry Month, so get in the spirit and come on out.
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Thursday, May 1 – Sunday, May 4
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/
MUFF, a non-profit, student-run organization has been showcasing radically independent experimental, narrative, and documentary films from around the world since 2006. “We are committed to publicly promoting the best in provocative, innovative, political and otherwise controversial film, video and new media work. Our objective is to enrich the everyday movie going experience by reaching out of the rubble of the mundane.” Festival volunteers collaborate with local artists and members of the cultural community in order to unlock new relationships and opportunities for social change.
This year’s festival presents work from a variety of up-and-coming as well as well-established filmmakers. This year's jurors are Riverwest Film and Video owner Xavier Leplae, filmmaker Jack Cronin, and UW-Madison Professor of Film and Video Production Sabine Gruffat will be on hand to judge the pieces, as well as show original work. At the conclusion of the festival, cash prizes will be awarded to the winners.
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Monday, May 5, 7pm
UWM Union Theatre
CMP film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
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Friday, May 9, 7pm
UWM Film Department Student Film Festival
UWM Union Theatre
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Saturday, May 10 7pm
UWM Film Department Senior Project Screenings
UWM Union Theatre
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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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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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
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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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Saturday, April 26
THE 7th ANNUAL UMALI AWARDS
Presented in conjunction with Indexical Frontiers
April 26, 2008 at 7:30 pm -- SATURDAY
Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave. (across from Izumi's)
Semi-formal attire requested.
Improvements this year:
1. Earlier in the calendar (so people can have a proper vacation).
2. A real piano.
3. The Illusory Tenant, fresh from his talk with Jane Hampden, makes a guest appearance.
4. A new rule regarding eligibility for the category of Most Frequented Restaurant.
5. A talk about the "Flattening of Experience" given by Xavier Leplae.
6. Nearer to Izumi's.
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3. The Illusory Tenant, fresh from his talk with Jane Hampden, makes a guest appearance.
4. A new rule regarding eligibility for the category of Most Frequented Restaurant.
5. A talk about the "Flattening of Experience" given by Xavier Leplae.
6. Nearer to Izumi's.
Monday, April 28
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
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TUESDAY, APRIL 29
at 7pm features the producers, professors and students who made the POETRY EVERYWHERE films at Harry Schwartz on Downer showing the films and talking about how we made them. Local poets whose work is featured will be there to read their poems, too. April is National Poetry Month, so get in the spirit and come on out.
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Thursday, May 1 – Sunday, May 4
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/
THIRD ANNUAL MILWAUKEE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, MAY 1-3
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival comes up to announce their third annual festival dates: May 1-3, 2008 (Thursday through Saturday). Six programs will be presented at various venues in Milwaukee. Opening night kicks off Thursday May 1 at the UWM Union Theatre on the UWM campus. One program will be presented at 7 pm, and is free to the public. Friday night’s exhibits will be shown at The Times Cinema, with a program at 7 pm and another starting at 9 pm. The 2008 festival will wrap up with the concluding three programs being shown at 4, 6 and 8 pm at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (911). A reception is to follow. Prices are $4 per screening, or a festival pass is available for $16. Tickets are available at the door. T-shirts and other merchandise will be for sale as well.MUFF, a non-profit, student-run organization has been showcasing radically independent experimental, narrative, and documentary films from around the world since 2006. “We are committed to publicly promoting the best in provocative, innovative, political and otherwise controversial film, video and new media work. Our objective is to enrich the everyday movie going experience by reaching out of the rubble of the mundane.” Festival volunteers collaborate with local artists and members of the cultural community in order to unlock new relationships and opportunities for social change.
This year’s festival presents work from a variety of up-and-coming as well as well-established filmmakers. This year's jurors are Riverwest Film and Video owner Xavier Leplae, filmmaker Jack Cronin, and UW-Madison Professor of Film and Video Production Sabine Gruffat will be on hand to judge the pieces, as well as show original work. At the conclusion of the festival, cash prizes will be awarded to the winners.
Monday, May 5, 7pm
UWM Union Theatre
CMP film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
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Friday, May 9, 7pm
UWM Film Department Student Film Festival
UWM Union Theatre
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Saturday, May 10 7pm
UWM Film Department Senior Project Screenings
UWM Union Theatre
