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MUFF Promo Event

Mon 10/25/21
7:00PM
18+
music
Free
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Promo Screening

It is MUFF’s 20th anniversary so come celebrate with us to kick off this season’s festival! Fun underground works from UWM’s very own film department’s staff will be screening.

The festival runs through Nov 11-13th, go to Milwaukee Underground Film Festival’s website for more info! Filmmakers will be in attendance, come say hi!

Notice: Proof of vaccination is required for entry into this event. Please show a valid vaccination card, clear photo of card, clear photocopy of card, or your state immunization registry which can be accessed online. No refunds will be offered for individuals that are unable to provide proof of vaccination upon arrival.

 

Show Lineup

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Steve Wetzel

Genre: Filmmaker

Steve Wetzel earned an MFA in painting from the University of Chicago (’98) and an MFA in film and video from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (’00). He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has presented as guest lecturer and visiting artist at Bard College, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Columbia College Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Wetzel’s research interests include the intersection of experimental film/video and observational documentary, and “the social construction of reality.” Recent video, gallery work and publication include Music Club (30 min, single-channel video, 2015); Of the Iron Range(20 min, single-channel video, 2014); a series of paintings and sculptures as part of a solo exhibition titled Domestic Objects (Green Gallery, 2013); and [PAUSE] (2014), his second collection of essays published by the Green Gallery Press.

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Ben Balcom

(Milwaukee)
Genre: Filmmaker

Ben Balcom is a filmmaker, educator, and independent programmer. His films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the European Media Festival, Media City Film Festival, Anti-Matter Media Arts, Alchemy Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance. Combining elements of documentary, fictional narrative, and abstraction, Balcom’s cinematic vocabulary is multi-faceted. He has explored melodrama, metaphysics, and, most recently, the politics of landscape. He is also the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema. Since 2013, Microlights has hosted over 50 film and video artists from around the world.

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Grace Mitchell

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Fibers, Filmmaker, Vendor

Grace Mitchell hand-knits garments and unique wares like scarves, hats, vests, booties, etc. with handmade and thrifted materials.

Mitchell is a video artist and musician residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has received her BFA & MFA in Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UW-Milwaukee. Her video work has screened both nationally & abroad at festivals such as FRACTO Berlin, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival.

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Jesse McLean

Genre: Filmmaker

Jesse McLean was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BA in Studio Arts from Oberlin College and her MFA in Moving Image from University of Illinois at Chicago. She is based in Milwaukee, WI, where she is an Associate Professor of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres at Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee.

She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including Projections at New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Mumok Cinema in Vienna, CPH:DOX, Kassel Dokfest, and Impakt. She was the recipient of an International Critics Prize, (FIPRESCI Prize) at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and a Jury Prize in the International Competition at the 2013 Videoex Festival. She was a featured artist at the 2014 Flaherty Seminar and a MacDowell Fellow in 2016. In 2016 she was selected for a Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship.

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Laura Harrison

Genre: Filmmaker

Laura makes experimental narrative animations that deal with people living on the fringes of mainstream culture. Her work has screened internationally and she has garnered numerous awards (most recently a Guggenheim for her forthcoming feature, The Limits of Vision).

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Brooke Thiele

(Milwaukee)
Genre: Filmmaker

As an artist I’m constantly questioning myself, and myself within the context of the world around me. Consequently, my motivations tend to reveal themselves from the inside out. The resulting work serves to illustrate my struggles to express these relationships; working not within the confines of one medium, but rather exploring several, including animation film, mixed media installations, and performance. 

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Drew Durepos

(Chicago, IL)
Genre: Filmmaker

Drew Durepos is a filmmaker living in Chicago. His short films investigate narrative structures through experimental modes and often involve loved ones, appropriated sources and inane visual effects. His experiences in commercial production, spanning micro-budget features to studio films and network television shows, inform his approach and haunt his dreams. His work has screened at London Short Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Drunken Film Fest Oakland, Tacoma Film Festival, and Onion City Experimental Film + Video Film Festival. He received his MFA from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2018. He is a member of the programming collective at Nightingale Cinema in Chicago. He teaches at UW–Milwaukee and Loyola University Chicago.