Special Silent Film Event FREE

SPECIAL SILENT FILM EVENT.  Wednesday, April 25th at the Oriental Theater.  RSVP deadline, Tues. Apr. 24th. 

Milwaukee Film is excited to partner with UWM’s Center for International Education’s (CIE) conference entitled World Cinemas, Global Networks to host a screening of G.W. Pabst’s silent film, Pandora’s Box (1929), complete with live musical accompaniment by internationally renowned Swedish film score composer, Matti Bye.

Regarded as a classic Weimar film, Pandora's Box follows the life of Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose naïve and uninhibited sexuality create a downward spiral for her promising future. Lulu's incendiary behavior attracts the attention of anyone that encounters her, but ultimately leads to the destruction of those closest to her. This unique event will showcase the tremendously talented Bye, who has performed live accompaniments at the TIFF Silent Film Days in Tromso, Norway; the Cinéma du Panthéon in Paris, France; Silent Film Festival in San Francisco; the Kino Arsenal in Berlin, Germany; the Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy; Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as at various other international locations. Bye is regarded as one of the most important Swedish film score composers, with credits that include the Ingmar Bergman documentary Images from the Playground (2009) and Everlasting Moments (2009).

The screening takes place on Wednesday, April 25 at 7 pm at the Landmark Oriental Theatre.
For this special screening, Milwaukee Film is offering up this FREE screening to the general public. You can request up to 2 free tickets and RSVP is mandatory - Just click here to fill out the RSVP form and you're all set. Limited seating is available for non-Milwaukee Film members, so please RSVP by Tuesday, April 24.

Milwaukee Film Festival Call for Entires 2012

The Milwaukee Film Festival has recently opened their Call for Entires for 2012. All submissions are FREE and they welcome all lengths and genres of films.

As a bonus: Filmmakers that reside in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee,  Walworth and Washington counties are also eligible for the Cream City Cinema Award, which includes over $30,000 in filmmaker services.

More info including application, FAQs, and rules and regulations can be found on their website

Pre-Occupy Symposium

Friday, April 13, 2012
1:30 pm Curtin 175

The Pre-Occupy symposium will address how earlier occupations and protests in California and Wisconsin set the stage for current occupations across the globe. The Center for 21st Century Studies contends that this acted as forms of pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall Street may have never happened.

Speakers include:

George Ciccariello-Maher (Drexel): "From Oscar Grant to Occupy: The Long Arc of Rebellion in Oakland"

Joshua Clover (UC-Davis): "The Coming Occupation"

Dan S. Wang (Columbia College) "Zuccotti Sans Rotunda, or The Uneven Spaces of Occupation"

There will also be a poetry reading by Joshua Clover
Saturday, April 14
7:00 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee
FREE

Hasan Elahi

While researching other Digital Arts & Culture communities, I came across Hasan Elahi, a professor at the University of Maryland.

For those of you who don't know Elahi, he is an interdisciplinary media artist with an emphasis on technology and media. Oh yeah, he is also on the US government terrorist watch list. Since being on this list, he started documenting every waking hour of his life. He posts copies of all his debit card transactions showing what he bought, where he bought it, and when. He even keeps a GPS device in his pocket that is connect to a real-time map to show his physical location. The government can go to his website whenever they want to see where he is and what he is doing. He has had hits from the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President.

Elahi is taking away the secrecy of his information by disclosing it to the public- therefore taking away its value and making it worthless. He refers to this as using "market sources".

For more information check out Hasan Elahi on the Colbert Report.

Pre-Occupy Symposium

Pre-Occupy Symposium
1:30pm Curtin 175

This symposium addresses how earlier occupations and protests in California and in Wisconsin set the stage for current occupations across the globe. Such pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall street may never have happened.

In this talk George Ciccariello-Maher, "From Oscar Grant to Occupy: The Long Arc of Rebellion in Oakland", will focus on one central aspect of the pre-occupy Oakland landscape: the 2009-2010 rebellions that shook hands with the murder of Oscar Grant. 

Joshua Clover

"The Coming Occupation"

A brief and partial history, both social and intellectual, of a certain tendency which would take part in the organizing of the 2009-2010 occupations, etc. in the UC system; its origins and its connections beyond UC and California; its political orientation and ensuing implications for strategy and tactics of struggle; and what role all this would play, directly and indirectly, in the formation and existence of Occupy Oakland, particularly regarding its difference from other Occupy venues.

Dan S. Wang

"Zuccotti Sans Rotunda, or the Uneven Spaces of Occupation"

This event is organized by Richard Grusin (C21) and Annie McClanahan (English)

Also...

There is a poetry reading by Joshua Clover

Sunday, April 14, 2012

7:30 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center

720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee

Cost: Free

For more information please visit: http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/12spring/preoccupy.html