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Experimental Tuesdays
Tuesday, February 7 7pm
This Day
(Akram Zaatari, France/Lebanon, 86 min., Arabic w/ Eng. St., DVCam, 2003)
In a thoughtful, dreamlike montage, Beirut-based video artist Zaatari examines archival photos, from portraits of Bedouins in the desert to the bomb-rent sky over the Lebanese capital. The imagery moves from an idyllic rural past, when the central conflict was between camel and car, to the strife-ridden present of propaganda and urban alienation. From his perch at the editing station, where he assembles these layers of history, Zaatari, cofounder of the Arab Image Foundation wonders what truths are ultimately captured in these photographs.
Presented in conjunction with the "The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive," a multimedia presentation by artist Walid Raad, to be held Friday, February 10, at 3:30pm, Curtin 175. Sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies. Raad, a member of the Arab Image Foundation, is the keynote speaker for the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Student conference (February 7-10). For more info, please visit www.uwm.edu/Dept/21st . film.
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Tuesday, February 14 7pm Valentine's Day
Kiss & Couch
(Andy Warhol, USA, 54 + 52 min., 16mm B&W, 1963/64)
Two of Andy Warhol's earliest, most accessible silent film experiments, about the art of making out, and then some. |
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Tuesday, March 7 7pm
Night Passage *Milwaukee Premiere
(Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier, 98 mins., Beta SP, 2004)
This provocative digital tale tells the story of three young friends traveling for a brief moment together on the train between life and death. Ingeniously framed through the train window, filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha and artist Jean-Paul Bourdier create whimsical and sensual dreamscapes, which are matched by an equally beautiful and other worldly music score. Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's children's sci-fi classic Milky Way Railroad .
Trinh Minh-ha consistently challenges her audiences with each new work, constantly shifting the ways in which she critically engages with the form and spirit of cinema. - Irina Leimbacher San Francisco Cinematheque
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Tuesday, April 4 7pm
Currents in Animation: Music, Metamorphosis, Infernal Visions
Book launch and screening. An animated extravaganza guaranteed to rewire your synapses and send you into the night in an altered state! Illustrating and illuminating ideas important to the recent anthology The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema , this screening of works on film and video spans the entirety of animation history, from rarely screened work by early pioneer Emile Cohl, and the mind-boggling
Jazz-age surrealism of the Fleischer Brothers' Betty Boop in Snow-White (1933), to brand-new work by the Brothers Quay.
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Wednesday, April 5 7pm
Amok-imation
(Various directors, various countries, 1996-2005)
An evening of animation for adults. From the Ninth Annual MadCat Women's Film Festival comes a program of international, animated films. Employing a wide variety of techniques, these shorts explore subjects as diverse as nursery rhymes, cosmetic surgery, religion, and gymnastics. The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of the women's film festival.'
Independent Film & Video Monthly
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Friday & Saturday, April 7 & 8 7pm
Maps of Time: New Landscape Films from James Benning:
13 Lakes & 10 Skies
Two new films from James Benning ( The California Trilogy ), who structures these two catalogues of landscape with a mathematical exactitude, the images, all captured by a stationary camera, unscrolling serially in uniform units, all of great majesty. A series of stunning compositions, the films facilitate heightened observation, the pleasures of looking and listening coupled with the richest of contemplative experiences. To screen: 13 Lakes (133 minutes, 2004) ( Friday, April 7 ) 13 views of 13 North American lakes; a portrait of light and an ecological cri de couer ; 10 Skies (101 min., 2004) ( Saturday, April 8 ) Ten 10-minutes shots, taken, at different times, from Benning's California backyard, the camera pointed skyward. "One of this unique filmmaker's greatest works. A masterpiece,"
Film Comment. (all work on 16mm) Presented by the UWM Film Department and the UWM Union Theatre as a part of the Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre series.
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Tuesday, April 11 7pm
Visiting Artist Julie Murray
The films of Julie Murray are astonishing works of subtle insights and great beauty. Deftly combining her own photographed material and a variety of found footage, Murray creates speculative and other-worlds which resonate with hidden meanings and tentative connections. At the same time her films are grounded in the real world, providing a sense of familiarity and constancy. The richness of the imagery and the sensitive use of sound intersect to form complex articulations of the tenuous emotional life of the world and the individuals in it. - Patrick Friel, Chicago Filmmakers
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Tuesday, May 9 7pm
Outer and Inner Space and Lupe
(Andy Warhol, 33 + 36 min., 16mm B&W + Color, 1965)
The Union Theatre's Experimental Tuesday series moves to the Union Art Gallery for a special evening of Andy Warhol's films for double screen projection featuring Warhol Factory Superstar Edie Sedgwick. LUPE is based on the last moments in the life of Mexican actress Lupe Velez, whose plan to commit an elegant suicide (with flowers, candles and a bottle of sleeping pills) goes horribly awry. OUTER AND INNER SPACE is a startling experiment using early video recording technology that features Edie sitting in front of a television set on which an image of herself it playing back. So what you see are four heads, alternating video/film, video/film, and sometimes all four heads are talking at once
[The] real import [of OUTER AND INNER SPACE] lies in what it tells us about Andy Warhol and his particular genius for instantly and intuitively grasping the conceptual possibilities of any media technology he got his hands on. Callie Angell, Curator of the Andy Warhol Film Project.
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