THIS WEEKEND

UWM Union Theater
The 29th Annual Latin American Film Series
Friday April 20 - 7pm * FREE *
Temporada de Patos (Duck Season, by Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico, 2004, 91 min)

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Spring Gallery Night (and Day)
http://www.historicthirdward.org/events/gallerynight.php

KENILWORTH BUILDING
Gallery night and open house
April 20, 2007 (5-9 pm) and April 21, 2007 (noon-5 pm)
enter through Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave



MFA graduate Ryan Sarnowski's installation Kisetsu, a four channel video installation inspired by a Japanese term referring to a deep feeling for the passage of time.

Also at Kenilworth: Joe Ventress, Greta Schmitting, Jacob Taxis, Jonah Whipp, and Dale Kamiski - all students from Mary Lucier's video installation class - have installations on display.
Plus, faculty and graduate student studios, project rooms and temporary exhibition spaces will be open for viewing, and there will be events throughout the building. Tours of the new facility will also be available.

NEIGHBORS
www.NeighborsGallery.info
800 E Clarke
"Through a high (snowy) pass and, Who Is This For / What Does It Do": A multi-media installation by the Archaeology of the Recent Future Association (with our very own grad Polina Malikin).
Part of Paradise Remixed.

Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery
www.paperboatboutique.com
Friday: 7 to 10pm (opening)
2375 S. Howell Ave
Paintings by MFA graduate and current adjunct Micaela O'Herlihy (www.anarchocinemalista.com), who is showing along with her old art school friend from San Francisco Veronica De Jesus (www.veronicadejesus.com).

Kunzelmann Esser Lofts
Friday: 5 to 10pm; Saturday: 11am to 4pm - Performance art on Friday night only.
710 W. Historic Mitchell St . Enter on 7th Street / free parking across the street.
MFA graduate (and yours truly) Cris Siqueira will be presenting the video “18/20 Hours” at the Kunzelmann Esser Lofts. Watch the video in the multimedia room and visit Cris’ apartment (320) for a drink on Friday night (I’ll be home from 7-9pm).

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UWM Union Theater
Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 35mm, 78 min., 1985)
Saturday, April 21 - 7pm and 9pm / Sunday, April 22 - 5pm and 7pm
Admission: $5 general / $4 students, seniors
The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival is proud to co-present the local premiere of the new 35mm print of Gus Van Sant's first feature "Mala Noche”.

Monday, April 23

Department screening / Film 201
11am-12h50pm @ MUS 175
Filmmaker Sharon Lockhart presents her work / artist talk

UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE*
Pine Flat (USA/Germany, 16mm, color/sound, 135min., 2005)
Filmmaker Sharon Lockhart in person!



"Pine Flat" is the latest in Sharon Lockhart’s ongoing and visually entrancing series of filmic portraits and mesmerizing considerations of form.
Her films -- such as "Goshogaoka" (1997), "Teatro Amazonas" (1999), & "NO" (2002) -- are, she offers, a "series of projects that have looked at communities, the landscape that creates them, and the people that inhabit them."

Her new film "Pine Flat" measures the experience of American childhood, specifically that of the girls and boys of Pine Flat, California. Shot over the course of three years in and around the town, "Pine Flat" unfurls Lockhart's characteristic structuralist approach to ethnographic portraiture: in a series of extended takes, of fixed composition and uniform duration, "Pine Flat" platforms a singular contemplative position, both intimate and detached, as we observe the town's children, alone, at play, in a world largely devoid of adults.

"Pine Flat" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and has since screened at such experimental venues as Berlin Film Festival's Forum, Images (Toronto), Media City Film Festival, and, most recently, the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Last summer, the film inhabited the Walker Art Center, reconfigured as a multi-room installation of photographs, sound, and film loops.

Tuesday, April 24

No postings.

Wednesday, April 25

Environmental filmmaker Judith Helfand at UWM

UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE* - A Healthy Baby Girl
8h30pm *FREE* - Blue Vinyl



Helfand is a Peabody award winning filmmaker, activist and educator whose films inspire unlikely community and institutional partnerships. She is best known for taking the dark, cynical world of chemical exposure and heedless corporate behavior and making it personal, resonant and entertaining.

Helfand will be on hand for three film screenings, including the Milwaukee premiere of Everything’s Cool, a film on global warming that picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off. She will also facilitate a workshop on using the media for community action.

Thursday, April 26

Environmental filmmaker Judith Helfand at UWM

UWM Union Wisconsin Room
2h30pm *FREE*
Workshop on Using Media for Community Action

UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE*
Everything is Cool

Friday, April 27

Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
2-5 pm, CRT 175 *FREE*
The Body and Technology in Process: Devising Generative Methods of Exchange

Norah Zuniga Shaw, Director, Dance and Technology, Dance Department, The Ohio State University and Luc Vanier, Department of Dance, UWM.



Norah Zuniga-Shaw is a dance artist and theorist working in the U.S. and Latin America. She is a founding member of the EMMA Lab (experimental media and movement arts lab), a collective of artists and scientists concerned with real-time engagements between the body, site, and technology. Recent commissions include three new dances for television (WOSU-PBS), performances for NANO at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and an interactive animated score for renowned choreographer William Forsythe. Zuniga-Shaw is director for dance and technology and assistant professor at The Ohio State University Department of Dance and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.

Luc Vanier is an Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at UWM. He studied at L'Ecole Superieur du Quebec under Daniel Seillier and in 1998 retired from Ohio Ballet, having danced roles such as the Workman in Kurt Jooss' Big City. As a company choreographer, Mr. Vanier's Square Play was presented as part of the company's 1995 Joyce season in NYC. His works Bob's Palace (Feb 2003) and Dreaming Meat (Feb 2004) were the culmination of four years of collaboration with the Beckman Institute. He more recently choreographed Cat's Cradle with Kurt Hartwig, Somewhere with music from Christopher Burns and Frog with animation from Evan Masureski. He also partners with Elizabeth Johnson as a dancer and as an Associate Director of Your Mother Dances.

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UWM Union Theater
7pm
The Iceberg (L’iceberg, by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium, French w/ Eng. St., 35mm, 2005)



Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy… until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs – she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home for a real iceberg.

UWM Union Theater
9pm *FREE*
Playtime (Jacques Tati, France, in French w/ Eng. St., 126 min., 35mm, 1967)



Set in an overly modern Paris of glass and steel, Tati’s Playtime follows not one particular character but groups of people interacting in ridiculous situations. The film features Tati’s famous character Monsieur Hulot, following a group of tourists on their travels. Eventually they all wind up in a posh new restaurant where everything that can go wrong with delightfully funny results. “[I]t is not the shape of the film or its cheerful philosophy that are important. Rather it is the density of the wit. It is the gracefulness of the visual gags that flow one into another, non-stop, in a manner that only Tati now masters.” – Vincent Canby NEW YORK TIMES

Saturday, April 28

Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video Series
www.woodlandpattern.org
720 E Locust St – (414) 263.5001
7pm $ 2

ProjectorTalk (Ages 6 & Up):
Live film performances by Grant Wiedenfeld



A projector speaks her images onscreen, and a poet’s voice offscreen talks to her, with her, when she listens in the dark. This unique mode of performance plays with a purring machine in place of a stage, and speaks to the lyric child at heart, on sleeves, or climbing in the trees. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Grant Wiedenfeld is an MFA candidate (nearly graduated!) at UW-Milwaukee. His films have screened at Media City Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition.

Films to be screened/performed:
Aubrey’s Forest Grove (8 min, 16mm & voice, 2007)
View of Lake Michigan, 1892 (4 min, 16mm, silent, 2007)
Muriel’s Song (3 min, 16mm, silent, 2006
Fort Dodge, Iowa (8 min, 16mm & voice, 2006)
Thunderstorms (5 min, 16mm & voice, 2006)
Crepuscule Duet (6 min, super8 & voice, 2002)
PLUS a surprise film…

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UWM Union Theater
5pm and 9pm
The Iceberg (L’iceberg, by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium, French w/ Eng. St., 35mm, 2005)

UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE*
The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckmann, Eddie Cline, 76 min., 35mm, 1926)
With Live Musical Accompaniment by Casey Meehan!



Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The General is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnnie Gray sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly choreographed comedy ever recorded on celluloid. Johnnie wages war against hijackers, an errant cannon, and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. Insisting on accuracy in every detail, Keaton created a remarkably authentic historical epic, replete with hundreds of costumed extras, full-scale sets, and the breathtaking plunge of an actual locomotive from a burning bridge into a river. “[Keaton's films] have such a graceful perfection, such a meshing of story, character and episode, that they unfold like music.” – Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Sunday, April 29

UWM Union Theater
5pm and 7pm
The Iceberg (L’iceberg, by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium, French w/ Eng. St., 35mm, 2005)

ONGOING / LAST CHANCE

Polaroid Image Series (1969-1974) (Mary Lucier)
with I am sitting in a room (Alvin Lucier)
Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N Prospect
Wednesday - Sunday through April 29, noon-5pm ** FREE **
http://www3.uwm.edu/arts/inova/minimalism/minimalismanditslegacy/index.htm

Mary Lucier's and Alvin Lucier's collaboration of projected polaroids and sound in now installed in Inova/Kenilworth, in conjunction with Inova's two shows in consideration of minimalism - Paper Thin (in Vogel) and Maximinimalist (in Kenilworth.)

Between 1969 and 1974 Mary Lucier made a series of slide projection works titled 'Polaroid Image Series,' begun as a collaboration with the composer Alvin Lucier and based on the structure of his composition for voice and tape,'I am sitting in a room.' In this sound work, Alvin Lucier recorded himself reading a text describing the making of the work. The recording was played back into the room repeatedly, rerecorded each time, until the original statement became unintelligible as a representational form, leaving only the resonant frequencies of the room and the rhythm of speech. Following the same structure, Mary Lucier introduced an original Polaroid photograph through a Polaroid copier, thus beginning a sequence of 50 images in which each subsequent generation becomes itself a copy of the one before it. As in Alvin Lucier's sound work, small errors that occurred during the process were incorporated into the work and amplified as it progressed. The resulting 50 black and white slides were projected sequentially, along with the original thirteen-minute audio work. The first performance of the 'Polaroid Image Series' and ! 'I am sitting in a room' was presented as a collaboration between the two artists at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 25, 1970. Numerous other image versions were produced between 1970 and 1974. An installation including four Polaroid series--Room, Shigeko, Croquet , and City of Boston--was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the historic exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964 - 1977. The first digital video editions were produced in 2006.

The Maximinimalist show is up at Inova/Kenilworth until April 29, and the Paper Thin show at Inova/Vogel is up through May 13.

Tuesday, April 17

Casting Blindly? Race and Representation in the Media and Performing Arts
A talk by Theatre faculty member Michelle Lopez, part of the Difficult Dialogues series
4h30 pm in Zelazo 171 ** FREE **

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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

7pm * FREE *
Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
(Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures, by Marcelo Gomes, Brazil, 2005, 99 min)

Two young men travel the Northeastern Brazil backlands in the early 1940s, stopping in dusty towns to sell the new miracle drug, aspirin. Johann is a German who fled his country to avoid World War II; Ranulpho is a sharp-tongued Brazilian who hitched a ride one day, hoping to leave drought and suffering for a better life. Under Johann's guidance, Ranulpho learns to operate the cinema that they set up in the village streets, so they can show their filmed demonstration to people who've never heard of aspirin—or seen a film. At first, Johann and Ranulpho seem worlds apart, but they become friends during long days riding in the truck, with only the scratchy radio voice to remind them of the distant war.

Wednesday, April 18

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

7pm * FREE *
El Clown
(The Clown, by Pedro Adorno and Emilio Rodríguez, Puerto Rico, 2005, 105 min)

Xavier del Monte is a small-town circus clown whose ambition takes him to the big city. There, an ad agency selects him as the Hot Dog Clown, the media character of a fast-food campaign that appeals to children and mothers. Success changes his life. He moves into an uptown apartment, buys a new car, enjoys shopping and falls in love. But the ad agency forbids him from exposing his true self to the public. At the top of his success, Xavier feels empty inside and does not know why. Now he will have to choose between affluence and happiness.
With Guest Director Pedro Adorno!

Thursday, April 19

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

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.

Friday, April 20

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

7pm * FREE * Temporada de Patos
(Duck Season, by Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico, 2004, 91 min)

Two fourteen-year old boys, Flama and Moko, have the apartment to themselves, looking forward to a day of video games, delivered pizza and coca-cola. Then their neighbor Rita comes over to borrow their oven, the power goes out, and the pizza delivery guy (who arrives 11 seconds late because he had to climb the stairs) refuses to leave until he gets paid. The day suddenly becomes far different than expected. Duck Season, winner of an unprecedented 11 Ariel Awards in Mexico, explores the loneliness of childhood, the effects of divorce, and the curious power of love and friendship.

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Spring Gallery Night (and Day)
http://www.historicthirdward.org/events/gallerynight.php

Presented by the East Town and Historic Third Ward Associations, the 19-year-old Gallery Night & Day has grown into a two-day premier art event in Milwaukee for both the experienced artist and most beginning admirer. This April 20 & 21, the quarterly event has 62 venues throughout the downtown area to choose from.

If you are showing your work somewhere around town for Gallery Night (and Day), please contact siqueira@uwm.edu to be included in this listing.

KENILWORTH BUILDING
Gallery night and open house
April 20, 2007 (5-9 pm) and April 21, 2007 (noon-5 pm)
enter through Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave


MFA graduate Ryan Sarnowski's installation Kisetsu, a four channel video installation inspired by a Japanese term referring to a deep feeling for the passage of time.

Also at Kenilworth: Joe Ventress, Greta Schmitting, Jacob Taxis, Jonah Whipp, and Dale Kamiski - all students from Mary Lucier's video installation class - have installations on display.
Plus, faculty and graduate student studios, project rooms and temporary exhibition spaces will be open for viewing, and there will be events throughout the building. Tours of the new facility will also be available.

Paradise Remixed
A neighborhood-wide art event in Riverwest
Opening for Gallery Night/Day: Friday 5-9 PM & Saturday 12-5PM
"Paradise Remixed", a neighborhood-wide art event, asks local artists & curators to reinterpret popular visions of paradise. Reworking mass-produced objects, recycled materials, & popular conceptions, artists will present us with everything from sanguine utopias to portentous dystopias. 9 different arts spaces in the Riverwest neighborhood are showing work & opening for this upcoming Milwaukee Gallery Night/Day: April 20-21, 2007. Collectively, there are over 50 artists participating in a variety of media - installation, book arts, fibers, painting, photography, & more .

NEIGHBORS
www.NeighborsGallery.info
800 E Clarke
"Through a high (snowy) pass and, Who Is This For / What Does It Do": A multi-media installation by the Archaeology of the Recent Future Association (with our very own grad Polina Malikin). Part of Paradise Remixed.

Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery
www.paperboatboutique.com
Friday: 7 to 10pm (opening)
2375 S. Howell Ave Paintings by MFA graduate and current adjunct Micaela O'Herlihy (www.anarchocinemalista.com), who is showing along with her old art school friend from San Francisco Veronica De Jesus (www.veronicadejesus.com).


Kunzelmann Esser Lofts
Friday: 5 to 10pm; Saturday: 11am to 4pm
Performance art on Friday night only.
710 W. Historic Mitchell St . Enter on 7th Street / free parking across the street.



MFA graduate (and yours truly) Cris Siqueira will be presenting the video “18/20 Hours” at the Kunzelmann Esser Lofts. Watch the video in the multimedia room and visit Cris’ apartment (320) for a drink on Friday night.

Saturday, April 21

UWM Union Theater
www.uniontheatre.uwm.edu

Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 35mm, 78 min., 1985)
7pm and 9pm Admission: $5 general / $4 students, seniors

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival is proud to co-present the local premiere of the new 35mm print of Gus Van Sant's first feature "Mala Noche”.
Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name, "Mala Noche" presents the desperate, lovestruck Walt, a liquor store clerk madly in love with a young Mexican laborer, in the country illegally and in command of only a very little English. Walt's attentions strike him as strange and undesirable -- only prompting Walt to work to create whatever kind of bond he can with this young man. Shot in gorgeously gritty black and white and wonderfully appreciative of the Portland, Oregon environs that Van Sant would use in later films like "Drugstore Cowboy" & "My Own Private Idaho."

Sunday, April 22

UWM Union Theater
www.uniontheatre.uwm.edu
Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 35mm, 78 min., 1985)
5pm and 7pm
Admission: $5 general / $4 students, seniors