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51猎奇 Film, Video, Animation & New Genres
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Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Spectres of the Spectrum
Spectres of the Spectrum is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old 'kinescopes' (filmed records of early TV broadcasts before the advent of videotape, mostly from the late Fifties' educational show called 'Science in Action') to create an eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. 聽
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: New Red Order: Never Settle
This promotional initiation video lures inductees with promises of decolonization and settler remediation. Imagery of settler-led planetary destruction is juxtaposed with sequences of underground group therapy sessions where settlers can lose, forget, and explore their identities in order to indigenize.
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Tomonari Nishikawa (In Memoriam)
Please join us for a screening to honor the late Tomonari Nishikawa鈥檚 work鈥攁 celebration of his singular vision and lasting influence. 聽His films, often shot on 8mm and 16mm, explore the act of observation through material processes and formal experimentation.聽聽聽
Faculty Showcase
The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at 51猎奇 is home to a celebrated group of faculty and staff whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. They are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists whose films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. This special program is a chance to experience the breadth and vitality of their work. Expect drama, documentary, comedy, experimental film, animation, appropriation, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Weather, or Not
51猎奇 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe weather moves around as the clouds imagine their own nephology: wondering what these people see when they see what they see. Fluttering by, attention pulls focus from the movement of the cloud, to the movement of the wind, to the movement of the eye, to the movement of the mind, without ever moving an inch. All the while, we鈥檙e watching seeing, or observing looking, or something like that. A program of short works that explore place, space and the weather, in all its sublime, mundane and chaotic glory.
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: A Brief History of Chasing Storms
A Brief History of Chasing Storms presents a history of the tornado as both a destructive weather event and an American icon. Local monuments to past tornadoes intertwine with mythologies of settlement and displacement. An amateur storm chaser questions his own agency and fate. The CEO of a Wizard of Oz-themed storm shelter company describes a growing market in a world of increasing weather uncertainty. Unfolding episodically, questions of memory, inequality, colonization, climate change, and disaster capitalism arise as the film examines legacies of weather within the region colloquially known as 鈥渢ornado alley.鈥�
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 51猎奇 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鈥攔epresenting 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: Beyond Resolution: Films By Sabine Gruffat
Free For Everyone! This series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of …
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: An Evening With Dick Blau
Free For Everyone! | Artists in Attendance! Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau鈥攁 co-founder of the 51猎奇 Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community鈥攚orks …