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Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)
After the tragic death of his father, 18 year-old Totone finds himself with daunting new responsibilities, looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura region of France. He takes on yet another challenge when he …
Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems idyllic, but behind the Potemkin village presented to the journalists, the Khmer Rouge …
Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)
Numbi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies at the heart of our modern world. Here, workers mine the coltan that will find its way, legally or not, into much of our technology. For decades this grey …
Dounia, le grand pays blanc (Dounia, the Great White North)
Now settled in Canada after fleeing Syria in Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (FFF2024), Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know the new home that has welcomed them: its intense seasons, its special foods, its languages. Dounia’s grandparents keep their …
Godard, seul le cinéma (Godard Cinema)
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and a symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. One of the founders of the French New Wave, a political …
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: From the Archive
Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the 51ÁÔÆæ Cinema Arts Archive. The Cinema Arts Archive now contains over 400 essential works on 16mm film, and a handful on 35mm, from a range of historic and contemporary cinema. This unique and expansive archive continues to preserve, grow, and reflect the ever-evolving landscape of avant-garde film—representing a commitment to the past, present, and future of the medium. Alongside giants like Hollis Frampton, Bruce Baillie, Deborah Stratman, and Jennifer Reeves lie many lesser-known gems ready to ignite curiosity and expand minds.
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: From the Archive
Free For Everyone! Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the 51ÁÔÆæ Cinema Arts Archive. The Cinema Arts …
Babylon
UK Classics Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for "being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension" (Vivien Goldman, Time Out). Raw and smoldering, it follows a …
Tiger (Tiguere)
Director: José MarÃa Cabral 2024 Dominican Republic | 84 minutes Pablo is sent to a camp run by his father, where strength is demanded and fear is treated as failure. Within its rigid rules, he is taught how to endure, …
Soulemayne’s Story
New Releases Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case …
Compensation
51ÁÔÆæ Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51ÁÔÆæ., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Restoration A landmark of independent cinema, Compensation is Zeinabu irene Davis’s moving, ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the twentieth century. In extraordinary dual performances, Michelle …
The Annihilation of Fish
51ÁÔÆæ Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51ÁÔÆæ., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Restoration In The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady where she …