Thursday May 1 - Friday May 16

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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.

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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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Thursday, May 8 – 7pm
Free Screening UWM Union Theatre

Locally Grown
Locally Groan, You Have Homework To Do! Ta Da!

This edition of Locally Grown will be programmed by The Archaeology of the Recent Future Association, a Milwaukee-based organization that strives to create experiences and support work that inspires vision and hope for a better world. They asked local artists to complete one of two assignments: #1. Using only one 100-foot roll of 16mm film, create a film and present it with a live soundtrack. or...#2. Submit 3 minutes of video. Each short clip will be compiled on one tape & each participant will receive a compilation tape with which they will make one new piece. The results will be revealed at a screening that celebrates our community's ingenuity, sweetness, humor, and talent.

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Thursday, May 8, 6:15 P.M.

Artist Talk: Mary Lucier
Free with general admission
Milwaukee Art Museum

Get to know Mary Lucier, a founding figure in the video art world, as she talks about her art. Internationally recognized and recently awarded a Skowhegan Award for video, Lucier has been evolving the video art form for over thirty years. Her Polaroid Projection Series (1969–74), a landmark piece of early projected image, will be open in the Sensory Overload exhibition. Lucier wil also show clips from her film Brise du Soleil, which she shot in Windhover Hall while she was a visiting professor at UW–Milwaukee. Her visual montage of images continues to develop and fascinate viewers.

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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
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Wednesday, May 14th, 6-9 PM

Peck School of the Arts, Inter-Arts
DIVAS Junior/Senior Project
A multimedia exhibition

Featuring work by the Junior/Senior class of the Digital Interactivity, Visualization, Animation & Sound (DIVAS) program at UW-Milwaukee. The exhibition will showcase students' semester-long projects including interactive installations, video, and performance pieces.

When:
Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 6-9 PM

Where:
1925 East Kenilworth Place
4th Floor (Enter through the West entrance)

Work by
Chris Campbell
Clint Chilcott
Darren Cole
Miles Fabishak
Matteo Garcia
Sarandos Klikizos
Peter Mast
Cedric Ranada
Todd Ruehmer
Chris Thorpe

DIVAS is a program of motivated, independent students who desire to explore media and technology-oriented production and theory at the blurred boundaries of video, electronic music, visual art, web based art, robotics, and programming.

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2008 UW-Milwaukee Photography Thesis Exhibition
May 16 - 18, 2008
Opening Reception - May 16, 2008 5:00pm

Please join UWM’s Photography Area in congratulating our students as they celebrate their thesis projects and BFA! The opening will take place on May 16 and is split between two venues; Spackle Gallery (5pm) and Art Bar Riverwest (7pm). Find the details below and the announcement attached.

Spackle Gallery
www.spacklegallery.com
2674 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53207
gallery hours
Thursday - Friday; 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Saturday - Sunday; 11:00am - 4:00pm

works by:
Sara Anderson
Liz Beveridge
Beth Bossert
Rollin Kunz
Nancie Moore
Erin Therrien

May 16 - 28, 2008
Opening Reception - May 16, 2008 7:00pm

Art Bar Riverwest
www.artbar-riverwest.com
722 East Burleigh Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
gallery hours
Sunday - Thursday; 6:00am - 1:00am
Friday - Saturday; 6:00am - 2:30am

works by:
Laura Dierbeck
Amanda Donajkowski
Shane Engelking
Tom Harris
Rollin Kunz
Jeremy Novy