The 29th Annual Latin American Film Series
Friday, April 13 – Friday, April 20 – Free Screenings
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/filmseries.html
7pm * FREE *
Barrio Cuba
(Neighborhood Cuba, by Humberto Solás, Cuba, 2005, 106 min)
In this second feature of a planned trilogy (following Miel para Oshún, 2001), Magalis, Ignacio, Vivian, Miguelito and Santo are all striving for a little happiness in Havana. They live life to its fullest, propelling themselves over and over against an uncertain fate. The harsh reality of the barrio challenges them, but they never lose the hope of a better future, of regaining a lost love, or finding a new one, of improving themselves. Barrio Cuba is the story of fighters whose lives are woven by a mosaic of emotions, at times bitterly confused, but always honest. The film also portrays a country and a moment where preserving dignity becomes a daily task. From the director of Lucía (1968), a classic of Cuban cinema.
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Layton Lecture / Artist Evan Roth
7:30 pm at Curtin 175
Free and open to the public
Visiting Artist Evan Roth is a media maker interested in uses of technology in popular culture and the urban environment. Mr. Roth is a founding member of Graffiti Research Lab and a developer of multiple technology hacker applications, including “throwies.” He is also a senior fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an open source creative technology research and development lab for the public domain.
You can view his amazing output and viral interventions at the following sites:
www.ni9e.com
www.graffitiresearchlab.com
http://research.eyebeam.org/people/evan-roth
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Mat Rappaport’s “span”
from 7:30-9:00 pm
Artist and faculty member Mat Rappaport will return two unmarked white box trucks to the road in a re-enactment of his mobile media video work, “span.” This event is one of nine scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition of work by the seven 2005 Nohl Fellows.
Video screens displaying images of the contents of the trucks, mixed with live footage from the road, will be mounted on the backs of the vehicles. The trucks will retrace a circuit linking the loading dock at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Hoan Bridge, and the entrance to the Port of Milwaukee.
Spectators may gather at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr., at 7:30 p.m. to watch videos as the trucks enter and exit the Santiago Calatrava-designed loading dock, or they may follow the two trucks as they circle between the museum and the port.
