Minimalism & Its LegacyInova at Kenilworth Square East, 2155 N. ProspectFrom 11:00 am to 5:00 pmhttp://www3.uwm.edu/arts/inova/minimalism/Organized by Nicholas Frank, Polly Morris and Carl Bogner, this free, cross-disciplinary event will explore minimalism and its legacy through performances, installations, screenings and a symposium. Participants include Rodger Belman (dance), Christopher Burns (music), Michelle Grabner (visual art), Joe Ketner (visual art) and Mary Lucier (installation).* - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * -
Wisconsin Film Festival in Madisonwww.wifilmfest.orgFilms by UWM students and faculty
PROGRAM: short.times.tenSaturday, April 14, 11:30amCinematheque (4070 Vilas Hall)
$7.00
A Covenant Adam
Directed By: Ariana Hamidi (USA, 2005, 15 mins)
An expression of memory and its loss, navigated through a family history. Super-8 home movies, Incredible Hulk ink transfers, and fragmented texts float across the screen in a reflection of childhood and family.CoconutDirected By: Chris Hoag
(USA, 2006, 2 mins)
Duck. Duck. Goose.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
PROGRAM: short.times.twelveSaturday, April 14, 1:15pmFrederic March Play Circle Theatre$7.00
The Art of EffortDirected By: Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
(Israel, 2005, 3 mins)
A elegant picture of art therapy for disabled Bedouin children in Israel. In their culture, these children are regarded as taboo and their parents requested that faces not be revealed.
Little SpiritsDirected By: Cecilia Condit(USA, 2005, 9 mins)
The mysteries of childhood friendships, the pull of adventure, and the impact of the young girl’s decision.
* * * * * * * * * * * *PROGRAM: Wisconsin Student Short Films
Saturday, April 14, 6:00pm
Monona Terrace Convention Center
$7.00
The Bird of Night
Directed By: Alan Schoenburg
USA, 2005, 1 min
A motion graphics piece based on “The Bird of Night,” a poem by Randall Jarrell. Alan Schoenburg is a BFA student in digital art at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Winner, Best Wisconsin Student Experimental Short Film, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival
Black Box
Directed By: Joe Sacco
USA, 2006, 3 min
One woman’s endless search through the dark to comfort someone she’s never seen. Joe Sacco is a student at UW–Milwaukee.
Winner, Kodak Opportunity Student Film Stock Grant, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival
Bloom
Directed By: Dave Kiehl
USA, 2006, 3 min
A candy-colored, whimsical adventurescape combining animation techniques of the past with modern software. Dave Kiehl is a graduate of the UW–Milwaukee.
Me and Jean Pierre
Directed By: Anna Krutzik
USA, 2006, 7 min
A girl meets and befriends a little plastic horse. She discovers that horses, just like people, can change. Krutzik is a junior at UW–Milwaukee.
Winner, Special Jury Prize, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival
Meniere's Disease
Directed By: Jason Williams
USA, 2006, 3 min
Inner ear. In your ear. Vertigo. Where to go? Williams is a film and theater student at UW–Milwaukee.
Skeletonizer
Directed By: Caroline Kastelic
USA, 2006, 4 min
A stop-motion animation exploring the inner workings of a sleepy man. Kastelic is a recent graduate of UW–Milwaukee’s film program.
Untitled
Directed By: Kipp Zavada
USA, 2006, 2 min
Bodyshape and light moving through space. Zavada is in the experimental film program at UW–Milwaukee.
* - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * -
UWM Union Theater
The 29th Annual Latin American Film Series
Friday, April 13 – Friday, April 20 – Free Screenings
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/filmseries.html
5:30pm * FREE * Special Feature
Dulce Convivencia (Sweet Gathering, Mexico, 2004, 18 min)
Documentary screening with guest indigenous media maker Filoteo Gómez Martínez
Indigenous filmmaking in Latin America has received increasing attention in recent years, as it allows communities to present themselves through their own lens, from their own perspective. Dulce Convivencia portrays the production of panela, a raw brown sugar made from cane with which people sweeten their food and drink in San Miguel Quetzaltepec, a Mixe community in Oaxaca, Mexico. The video illustrates life in the community and how work, happiness and pain are collectively shared. It also highlights the struggle to remain self-sufficient in food production. Entirely spoken in Mixe, the film recently screened at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
7pm * FREE *
Secuestro Express (Express Kidnapping, by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Venezuela, 2005, 87 min)
After a night of dancing and partying in Caracas, an upper class couple is taken hostage by three men who make their living extorting fast money via “express” kidnapping. Carla and her fiancé live terrifying hours uncertain of their fate, while the kidnappers await a ransom from her father. Despite being the highest grossing Venezuelan film of all time, the Chávez administration denounced Secuestro Express for its depiction of the rifts between social classes in Venezuelan society.
