2 pm ** FREE **
CURTIN 175
Wing Young Huie presents his work
and his goals for his Spring Residency at UWM
Internationally recognized for his documentary photography, Wing Young Huie is the 2006-2007 recipient of the Center of Age and Community Residency in Applied Arts, sponsored by the Helen Bader Foundation and the Brookdale Foundation.The Residency in Applied Arts link creative artists to the rapidly growing field of elder care. The residency supports projects designed to address the quality of life of people with dementia and raise public awareness about their capacities.
Huie has more than 30 years of experience, photographing thousands of people from a variety of ethnic, cultural, spiritual and socioeconomic backgrounds. He is well known for his project "Lake Street USA," which documented 15 neighborhoods in Minneapolis over the course of four years. The culmination of "Lake Street USA" was a six-mile communal gallery of 675 photographs.
For more on Wing Young Huie see www.wingyounghuie.com
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Basement Cinema
Mitchell Hall - Room B91 ** FREE **
http://basementcinema.wordpress.com/
7pm
Black Caesar
(dir. Larry Cohen, 1973, 87 minutes)
Former pro-footballer and all around badass Fred Williamsons plays Tommy Gibbs, a tough shoeshine boy from the ghettos. Angry with society and aching for power Tommy is sick of being pushed around by racists on both sides of the law. After completing a hit on a Mob contract Tommy gains the attention of the Mafia and sets off full blown gang war. Shot on the gritty streets of New York City and set to a scorching soundtrack by James Brown, Black Caesar reigns as the godfather of blaction films. If you don’t believe it, than just wait until Gibbs smears shoe polish across a bigot’s face and beats the white crap out of the guy while demand that he sings “Mammy.”9pm
Hell Up in Harlem
(dir. Larry Cohen, 1973, 94 minutes)
Sequel to Black Caesar.
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UWM Union Theatre
10th Annual Festival of Films in French
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/French_Film_Festival/about.shtml
7pm
Quand la Mer Monte
(When the Sea Rises, dir. Yoland Moreau and Gilles Portes, 2004)
Winner of the Cesar Award in France 2005, Best 1st film at Prix Louis Delluc 2004.
A first film written and directed by Yolande Moreau and Gilles Portes. Yolande Moreau plays ‘Irene,’ a comedian who travels along the Belgian-French border performing her one-woman show to audiences in school auditoriums and retirement homes. Feeling somewhat lost and lonely for her family, she finds friendship in ‘Dries’ played by Gilles Portes, a timid yet charming float designer, who follows her from town to town. “Approaches the eloquence of Fellini’s Strada.” Stephen Holden, New York Times.
9pm ** FREE **
Petite 2 (dir. Viviane Vagh, 2005)
La Petite Jerusalem (dir. Karin Albou, 2004)
