Film

“Yet what a complicated endless tale it seemed to tell, of tyranny and sanctuary, that poster looming above him now, showing the murderer Orlac! An artist with a murderer’s hands; that was the ticket, the hieroglyphic of the times.”

This is a marathon screening in which no one who was rejected from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this year is denied screen time for at least one of their works. Admission is free for the entire 9 hours of films. Here we stand, here we screen. What was once a solitary experience of rejection has become, through a funny faux pas, a building of community.

Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of experimental short works to celebrate her return.

An absorbing drama of 30 men (and one woman) who set out on an illegal 7-day voyage from the coast of Senegal to Spain – making the perilous journey in a pirogue, a boat resembling a vastly oversized dinghy.

Taylor’s frantic performance mirrors The Driver’s Seat setting—an early ‘70s Rome, part consumer paradise and tourist hub, part staging ground for student riots and police violence, teetering on the edge of collapse.