Monday, March 12

UWM Union Theatre
7pm ** FREE **
Michael Collins (Neil Jordan, 133 min., 1996)
Please note: presentation starts at 6:30



Irish revolutionary Michael Collins courageously fought to free Ireland from the clutches of British rule. Prior to the screening Ms. Cat Murphy will present historical contextualization for this film and lead discussion afterwards. Co-sponsored with Phi Alpha Theta, (History Honors Society). "Romance, passion and excitement. Neil Jordan's extremely cinematic, beautifully made David Lean-type epic is powerful and provocative." - Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tuesday, March 13

UWM Union Theatre
Experimental Tuesday: “The Animal Eclectic”
7pm ** FREE **
A collection of experimental short films and videos exploring animal imagery. Includes work by Ben Coonley, Jennet Thomas, Alexander Kluge, Jim Finn, and Carl Stevenson.

Wednesday, March 14

CAMERA OBSCURA – Ethan Jackson at Kenilworth
Gallery hours: noon-5pm
Artist in attendance.
Visiting Artist Ethan Jackson converts Inova / Kenilworth into a camera obscura.
Please note: there is a classroom visit from 11-1pm.

Thursday, March 15

CAMERA OBSCURA – Ethan Jackson at Kenilworth
Gallery hours: noon-5pm
Visiting Artist Ethan Jackson converts Inova / Kenilworth into a camera obscura.
Camera obscura in operation; artist not in attendance.

Friday, March 16

UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema

7pm
Road (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)
* * Director Leslie McCleave present * *



Winner – Outstanding Performances for Catherine Kellner and Ebon Moss-Bachrach – Los Angelos Film Festival 2005

Two ex-lovers set out on a road trip when Margaret, a freelance photographer, gets her first big assignment to survey environmental clean-up sites. Joined by Jay, her unemployed ex-boyfriend, they travel into a landscape filled with one abandoned environmental disaster after another, while painful memories of their troubled relationship begin to emerge. Suddenly, back roads lead to nowhere, equipment fails, and Margaret and Jay inexplicably encounter the same foreboding characters again and again. The couple circles through what looks and feels like a hell on earth as they try to navigate the roads between toxic waste sites and damaged love. With its stylized narrative, compelling performances, and supernatural backdrop, Road brings us to the heart of a disturbing social issue in an evocative story for our times.

9pm ** FREE **
Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)



Police Beat presents a unique protagonist in the post-9/11 world: a morally upright, Republican Muslim police officer. The film follows African-born Seattle bicycle cop, Z on his beat for seven days and six nights, covering crimes, all of which are based on actual Seattle police reports. Z is so preoccupied with his possibly unfaithful girlfriend that he never once acknowledges the criminal world that swirls around him. The crimes Z encounters become mirrors of his turbulent inner state, allowing him to philosophize about his unstable romantic relationship as well as his own development as an emotional being. While Z's regular interactions are in English, his thoughts, narrating the film, are in his native Wolof, the primary language of West Africa. Police Beat is an unusual portrait of an immigrant new to the United States that focuses less on the protagonist's socioeconomic difficulties than on his emotional responses to American life.

Saturday, March 17

UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema

5pm
Road (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)

7pm ** FREE **
Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)

9pm
Road (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)

Sunday, March 18

UWM Union Theatre: World Cinema

5pm ** FREE **
Police Beat (Robinson Devor, US, in Eng. & Wolof w/ Eng. St., 80 mins., 35mm, 2005)

7pm
Road (Leslie McCleave, US, 92 min., Beta SP, 2005)

COMING SOON / WEEK AFTER SPRING BREAK

Monday, March 26

Stereoscopic artist Vladimir presenting in Film 201 / MUS 175, 11am – 12:50pm
Vladmasters are handmade View-Master™ reels designed, photographed, and hand-assembled by Portland, Oregon-based artist Vladimir. Her Vladmasters make use of toys, neglected household objects, and odd ephemera to tell 28-picture tales of train chases, missing steam shovels, disastrous dinner parties, and overly adventurous cockroaches. Her live performances offer simultaneous Vladmaster experiences in which every attendee is given a viewer and set of disks and then led through the story by a soundtrack featuring music, narration, sound effects, and ding noises to cue the change from image to image.



Tuesday, March 27

Vladimir at Experimental Tuesday / 7pm Union Theater ** FREE **
Cover Your Eyes in Delight! An Evening of Vladmaster-y!

Vladimir will be on hand to lead the audience through four of her wondrous Vladmaster tales. Promises Vladimir: “The CLACK of hundreds of viewers turning simultaneously fills the air. Mass euphoria ensues.” View-Master™ and accompanying soundtrack to be provided! Please note: arrive early! Limited seating! Co-presented with Milwaukee’s own Paper Boat Boutique.

Wednesday, March 28

Susan Stryker presents Screaming Queens / 7pm Union Theatre ** FREE **

Filmmaker Historian Susan Stryker on UWM campus to present her documentary
SCREAMING QUEENS: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
a documentary by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman



Presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
For more information on SCREAMING QUEENS: www.screamingqueensmovie.com

Friday, March 30

Colloquia in Conceptual Studies / 2 pm - CURTIN 175
"Interactivities: Conversations with Media Artists and Theorists"

George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of Music, Columbia University
Title: "Living with Creative Machines"

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Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video Series / 7pm, $2
Beautiful, Wary: The Films of Michael Robinson
Filmmaker Michael Robinson in person!



In a series of films both deftly beautiful and exquisitely suspicious, Michael Robinson unfurls captivating imagery as a means of surveying the landscape of a possible romanticism. Bracingly smart and a pleasure to behold, his films offer a consideration of the valence of beauty and the chance of sincerity. Currently based in Chicago, Robinson has presented his prize-winning films all over: at, for instance, the New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant Garde, the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Images (Toronto), the Media City Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, and the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.

For more details: http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/efv.shtml