UW-Milwaukee Department of Film

2008-05-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

May 8th - May 16th
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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.

Participating Artists:
Jesus Ali, Sam Augustine, Trevor Berman, Jeremy Bessoff, Anne Bisone, Robyn Braun, Ray Chi, Portia Cobb, Brent Coughenour, Jamal Currie, Allison Halter, Kati Katchever, Kelly Kirshtner, Laura Klein, Xav Leplae, Andrea Maio, A. Bill Miller, Erik Peterson, Kate Raney, Mat Rapaport, Joseph Reeves, Ryan Szarnowski, Marc Tasman, Chris Thompson, Renato Umali, Celeste Verhelst, Steve Wetzel

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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

2008-05-01T18:43:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2008-04-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

Thursday April 24th - Saturday May 10th

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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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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:

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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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

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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

2008-04-17T10:40:00.001-07:00

Thursday April 17 - Monday April 28

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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Benefit

MUFF EXPLOSION 2008 @ Art Bar

722 E. Burliegh St.
Thurs. April 17. 8PM
$5 at the door. All ages, drink with ID
featuring The Lillies, Steve Wetzel and Andy Thiel

MUFF's website: http://www.filmmilwaukee.org

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Friday April 18 - Saturday April 19, 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.

For schedule see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AP/World_Making/index.html

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Friday – 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, 2008 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, 2008 noon-5 pm
Kenilworth Square East Open House Schedule

CONTINUOUS EVENTS

At Urban Outfitters What’s Your _____? Video and Pinhole Photography by Portia Cobb’s Ethnographic Video Class
Sissel Tolaas: Fear 9 (scent-based installation, 463)
Photography: work by students of Gina Rymarcsuk, Naomi Shersty, and Tom Bamberger

Open Studios
Dick Blau (photography projects, 491)
Chris Whittaker (sculpture or video loop, 492)
Portia Cobb (screening of Trilogy, shorts works from a project using found footage mingled with her own footage, 481)
Gina Rymarcsuk & Naomi Shersty (455)
Ken Wood (painting) 479

SCHEDULED EVENTS
FRIDAY
5-6 pm: screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (Room 408)
6-7:30 pm: Sensorium: A Conversation with Sissel Tolaas and Caroline A. Jones (see below for more details) (Room 412)
8-9 pm: Roughcut screening of Chosen Towns: The Experience of Jews in Rural Wisconsin’s Diaspora (film in progress made by docUWM and UWM students) with invited audience; public & audience invited to offer feedback. RT 60 min. (Room 408)

Performances/Installations
SATURDAY
Noon-5 pm: Poetry Everywhere (mostly silent 36 min. loop on 2 screens)
Noon-5 pm: Glenn Bach open studio/rehearsal with special guest sound artists John Kannenberg, Jim Schoenecker, others. Improvised performance at 3 pm. (449)
Noon-1 pm : screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (408)
1: 15 pm: My Trip to the Beach, or Making Me into You 9 Times Over (Heather Warren Crow performance, 408) (15-20 min.)
2-5 pm: screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (408)

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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.

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 (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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Friday 4/18: 3pm - 9pm
Saturday 4/19: 11am - 4pm

Treat yourself to an impressive photography exhibit:
FOCUS, the UWM Undergraduate Student Photography Club, is having their first group show.
Fifteen - twenty active members have worked incredibly hard to arrange and install this exhibit.

Hope to see you there!

FOCUS ~ the unveiling exhibition
C.R. Davidson Art
Marshall Building, 207 E. Buffalo St, Suite 210
414-220-9389

Show runs: 4/15 - 6/15
gallery hours: Fri & Sat 11am - 4pm, or by appointment

**Student Photography work is also on display on the third and fourth floors of
KSE for Gallery night & day.

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Monday, April 21

Screening in Intro to Experimental Media Arts 201

MUS 175 11:00am-12:50pm

Bruce Conner's Report
Gunvor Nelson and Debra Wiley's Schmeerguntz
Work by Animal Farm

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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.
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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
&
“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)

2008-04-14T14:36:00.000-07:00

Monday April 14th - Monday April 28th

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Monday, April 14
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)

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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Friday April 18 - Saturday April19, 2008

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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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

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Friday, April 18, 2008 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, 2008 noon-5 pm
Kenilworth Square East Open House Schedule

CONTINUOUS EVENTS

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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

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

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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)

2008-03-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

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

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."  

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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.

Friday April 18 - Saturday April19, 2008

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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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

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

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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.
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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)

UW-Milwaukee Department of Film

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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Benefit

MUFF EXPLOSION 2008 @ Art Bar

722 E. Burliegh St. Thurs. April 17. 8PM $5 at the door. All ages, drink with ID featuring The Lillies, Steve Wetzel and Andy Thiel

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Friday April 18 - Saturday April 19, 2008

World Making: Art and Politics in Global MediaHefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Friday April 18 - Saturday April19, 2008

World Making: Art and Politics in Global MediaHefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Friday April 18 - Saturday April19, 2008

World Making: Art and Politics in Global MediaHefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

722 E. Burliegh St.
Thurs. April 17. 8PM
$5 at the door. All ages, drink with ID
featuring The Lillies, Steve Wetzel and Andy Thiel

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee