Tuesday, November 27

UWM Union Theater
Experimental Tuesdays
7pm *FREE*
Nazuna
(Hitoshi Toyoda, Japan/US, 90 min, 35mm slides, 2003-4)
Hitoshi Toyoda in person!



Hitoshi Toyoda is a self-taught photographer who has worked exclusively in the medium of slideshows for the past ten years. His silent slide shows have been compared to haiku literature because of the way they are able to encompass both the minutiae of daily life and the larger, unknowable forces that govern that life. Toyoda only exhibits his work in live contexts, clicking through the slides himself.

Wednesday, November 28

DocUquarium Series – every Wednesday September 5-December 5
“Dive deep” into the newest independent documentaries this fall as filmmaker/professor Brad Lichtenstein opens up his film 301 class to the public. Nine premieres, guests every month and deep exploration guaranteed. Check the complete schedule at http://www4.uwm.edu/docuwm/ and the blog at http://docuquarium.groups.vox.com/.

This Week’s DocUquarium:

UWM Union Theater
7h30pm *FREE*
Revolution ‘67
(Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, USA, 90 min, 2007)
Filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno in person!



Revolution '67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history - the black urban rebellion of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid July, Revolution '67 reveals how the disturbances began as a spontaneous revolt against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. Voices from across the spectrum - activists Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James, and other officials, National Guardsmen and Newark citizens - recall lessons as hard-earned then as they have been easy to neglect since.

The film will be screened again at America’s Black Holocaust Museum on Nov. 29 (see details bellow).

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Basement Cinema
Mitchell Hall - Room B91

Basement Cinema is a student-run series of B and unusual commercial movies.
More information at http://basementcinema.wordpress.com
This week: Magic vs. Muscles - two early 80’s quickies designed to cash in on the barbarian craze that was sweeping America for a minute or two.

8pm *FREE*
The Sword and the Sorcerer

(Albert Pyun, 1982, 100 minutes)



A bloody, low budget movie in the spirit of Conan or Excalibur, except this one makes very little sense. The hero and his three-bladed, jet-propelled sword must help the heroine save her brother from a demonic figure known as Cromwell. Lots of action, torture, magic, mayhem and some killer special effects.

10pm *FREE*
Deathstalker
(James Sbardellati, 1983, 80 minutes)



Self-centered blonde hunk Richard Hill is Deathstalker and former girlfriend to Hugh Hefner, Barbi Benton is a kidnapped princess. A giant tournament is staged to see who the greatest fighter in all the land is and you can probably figure who it will be. Then again, Deathstalker ain’t exactly a thinking man’s film unless that man likes to think about lots of nudity, blood, mud-wrestling, decapitations, dwarfs, and an ugly, boar headed beast man; not to mention piled on stupidity and a topless sword fighting scene.

Thursday, November 29

Noon at Alterra
Coffee with DocUquarium guests Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno (Revolution ‘67)
Alterra Coffee Roasters – 2211 N. Prospect Ave.
Join us for an intimate chat with the filmmakers.

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America’s Black Holocaust Museum
7pm *FREE*
Revolution ‘67
(Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, USA, 90 min, 2007)

Followed by a panel discussion including filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno.
The America’s Black Holocaust Museum is located at 2233 N 4th St.

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UWM Union Theater
7pm
Interkosmos
(Jim Finn, US, 74 min., video, 2006)



"A cosmonaut romance set aboard a 1970s East German space mission to colonize the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, Interkosmos weaves together lovingly faked archival footage, charmingly undermotivated musical numbers, propagandistic maxims ("Capitalism is like a kindergarten of boneless children"), stop motion animation (of a suitably crude GDR-era level), a Teutonic (and vaguely Herzogian) voiceover, and a superb garage-y Kraut rock score (by Jim Becker and Colleen Burke). Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin" - Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE

Friday, November 30

2pm *FREE*
Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
Sensational! Sensing Media Arts – Theory and Practice
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl., 4th Floor

Tom Recchion & Jonathon Rosen
Radio Nurse: live audio-visual
Contamination and Disintegration



TOM RECCHION has been an artist/composer/art director in Southern California since the 1970’s. He is the co-creator & co-founder of the legendary art & music collective the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). His early practice in low-tech sonic exploration presaged many of the genre’s exciting developments of the last quarter century: record manipulation, tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments, installation, and more. He has worked with many musicians—Keiji Haino, David Toop, Max Eastley, Jad Fair & Half Japanese, Oren Ambarchi, Jim Thirwell, John Duncan, Christian Marclay and Sonic Youth to name a few. He is currently in 3 groups: Extended Organ with artists Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts and Fredrik Nilsen, Smegma in which he is “Victor Sparks,” and a trio called The Rodney Forest with Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia (from Smegma). He also occasionally writes for WIRE magazine and has many recordings released on Cortical, Idea, Birdman (US), Touch (UK), Schoolmap (Italy), PSF (Japan), Meuww Muzak (Belgium) and other labels. Most recently he released 78 The Incandescent Phonograph and The Song of Mister Phonograph on a 10” 78 RPM with a grant from the City of Pasadena’s Cultural Affairs and received a commission from the Kronos Quartet. Currently he holds the position of Sr. Creative Director for EMI/Capitol Records.
His latest solo CD, Sweetly Doing Nothing, is listed in Artforum’s December 2007 Year in Review issue as one of the 10 best music events of the year. He is very tired.

JONATHON ROSEN is a painter/illustrator/film maker based in Brooklyn, NY. He makes books, drawings, paintings & animation. His work employs an obsession with medical, mechanical & carnivalesque. Collaborators & venues include: Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow), PS.1 Museum LIC, Queens, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA., McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Paraphrase, MTV, Sony Music, Time Magazine.

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The Digital Dancing Image
Dance and Digital Media Class Showing
with Cecelia Condit and Luc Vanier

7pm *FREE*
Kennilworth Square East, Studio 660



Presented by Dance and Film Departments
with special thanks to the Theater Department

For more information call 229 2571 or email danceinfo@uwm.edu

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UWM Union Theater
7pm
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
(Hei Yan Quan, Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France/Austria, in Malay, Mandarin and Bengali w/ English St. , 115 min., 35mm, 2007)



Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur , Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead. Rawang, an immigrant worker living in the shell of an abandoned building finds and nurses him. Rawang`s feelings for his patient may or may not be sexual, but there's definitely something like lust in the eyes of Chyi, a waitress in a run-down old coffee shop, for Hsiao Kang. And so a triangle forms as a blanket of noxious fog settles on the city and everyone has trouble breathing. Simultaneously erotic and comical, the film underpins director Tsai's deadpan allegory with hints of social realism.

9pm
Lights in the Dusk
(Laitakaupungin Valot - Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, in Finnish and Russian w English St., 78 min., 35mm, 2007)
Milwaukee Premiere!



Lights in the Dusk concludes Kaurismäki's ‘loser trilogy'. The first film focused on unemployment and the second on homelessness, this final installment is about loneliness. Koistinen, a night watchman searches the hard world for a small crack to crawl in through, but both his fellow beings and the faceless apparatus of the society conspire to crush his modest hopes. His longing for love leaves Koistinen open to exploitation and framed for a robbery. This dark jewel of a film glows with genuine warmth and a small but enriching glimmer of hope.

Saturday, December 1

UWM Union Theater
5pm & 9pm
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
(Hei Yan Quan, Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France/Austria, in Malay, Mandarin and Bengali w/ English St., 115 min., 35mm, 2007)

7pm
Lights in the Dusk
(Laitakaupungin Valot - Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, in Finnish and Russian w English St., 78 min., 35mm, 2007)

Sunday, December 2

UWM Union Theater
5pm
Lights in the Dusk
(Laitakaupungin Valot - Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, in Finnish and Russian w English St., 78 min., 35mm, 2007)

7pm
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
(Hei Yan Quan, Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France/Austria, in Malay, Mandarin and Bengali w/ English St., 115 min., 35mm, 2007)