UWM Union Theater7pmSyndromes and a Century(Sang Sattawat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Austria, in Thai w/ English st., 105 min, 35mm, 2007)Milwaukee Premiere!
A film in two parts: the two central characters are inspired by the filmmaker's parents, in the years before they became lovers. The first part focuses on a woman doctor, in a space reminiscent of the world in which the filmmaker was born and raised. The second part focuses on a male doctor, in a more contemporary space much like the world in which the filmmaker presently lives. Pearls of wisdom, descriptions of syndromes and fragments of time crystallize in luminous atmospheres and dot the modern architecture of the film, creating a charming, quiet incantation.9pm *FREE*4 Elements (Jiska Rickels , Netherlands , 89 min., 35mm, 2006)Milwaukee Premiere!
Referring to the primordial elements of fire, water, earth and air, this documentary follows in four chapters, a team of forest firefighters in Siberia, fishermen on the Bering Sea, workers in a German coal mine and a group of Russian cosmonauts preparing for launch in Kazakhstan . Director Jiska Rickels reveals the paradox of our inextricable bind with nature and our simultaneous alienation from it.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video Series7pmSelected works by video artist and performer Kimberly MillerWoodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust St.Tickets: $2 at the door. Seating is limited.www.woodlandpattern.orgCo-presented by the UWM Film Department
"Kimberly Miller is a video artist and performer. She wants to destabilize the discrete subject and object, viewer and performer, us and them, expand parameters of inclusion, engage the responsibility of the viewer and delight in a cross-section of time. The address of the you of the spectator is also the address of the me. Kimberly Miller is interested in pursuing a more democratic subject, in that you have as much say in who you are as I do, in the context of this artistic exchange (viewer/performer, spectator/artist, audience/show). What's at stake is one's very existence, one's self, myself and yourself. Our identities, our subjecthood, our positions in relation to one another. These shifting, surfacing and submerging connections are unstable and fleeting, deliciously and infinitely now. Or maybe Kim is always working towards the existence of a democratic subject, hopefully and enthusiastically, without ever reaching this place. Or, when I say you I have called you into being. I made you."Followed by a reception at Sarah Buccheri's House: 2450 N. Bremen St.Come meet Kimberly Miller, who will be teaching in the Film Department next semester.Drinks and snacks provided for your enjoyment and for the facilitation of lively conversation. After the show. Carpooling available.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Phantasmagoria: “Bringing Back the Dead" Charles Allis Art Museum1801 N Prospect AveSix performances: Oct. 26-29Admission: $20 General. $15 CAVT Member. $10 Student.Information and Reservations: 414-278-8295, ext. 10Sponsored by the Peck School of the ArtsA 19th Century Gothic Cabaret presented by Music From Almost Yesterday Nietzsche & Frankenstein’s Creator Back from Dead, Live on Stage! During a variety show of music, philosophy, theater and dance, the ghostly spirit of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, novelist Mary Shelly, her husband poet Percy Shelly, dancer Loie Fuller and others will mysteriously be reincarnated live. Several 19th century works will be dramatized: "The Birth of Tragedy," (1871) by Nietzsche, "Frankenstein, A Modern Prometheus "(1816) by Mary Shelley, and "Prometheus Unbound" (1820) by Percy Shelley. Because of intimacy of the event there will be only 85 seats available for each performance and six performances only, so book ahead.
