MUFF 2025
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Hosted at Cactus Club, UWM UNION CINEMA and
JAZZ GALLERY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
STUDENT SECTION
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STUDENT SECTION ⟢
NECTAR - Ella Schneider
star born brutal - Antonio Dimovski
Where are the Wild Things? - Ben Clement
Under the Miniature Moon - Lansky Tuazon
Hydroelectricity - J June
Underneath - Danielle Vishlizky
The Walls Were Blue - Alex Guerra
Extraordinary Changes - Kat Charles
Supply & Demand - Elliot Smith
Fort Garry Lions Pool - Ryan Steel
One Hundred White Trucks - Brice Goldberg
Samgye-tang - Andy Park
NO FLASH.NO SIRENS.NOBODY? (PERFORMANCE) - Isabella Benitez
APRIL 7th
CACTUS CLUB 7 PM
2496 S Wentworth Ave
OPENING NIGHT
APRIL 17th
UW - MILWAUKEE UNION CINEMA
2200 E Kenwood Blvd
PROGRAM ONE 6 PM
Refuse Room - Simon Liu
Eurydice in the Underworld - Felicity Palma
Black Glass - Adam Piron
Glistening Seagull - Chae Yu
Archipelago of Earthen Bones - Malena Szlam
PROGRAM TWO 7:30 PM
Half Halt - Sofia Theodore Pierce
It Follows, It Passes On - Erica Sheu
Postpartum Film - Sally Lawton
An Inimitable Place Called Home - Jolene Mok
Bisagras - Luis Arnias
The Individual - Sara Sowell
APRIL 18th
The Jazz Gallery
926 East Center St.
PROGRAM THREE 3 PM
Plastic Aortas - Malic Amalya
What the Gardner Missed - Alan Medina
Exit Danish Flat - Natasha Woods
Las Animas - Matt Feldman
Before Seriana - Samy Benammar
JUROR PROGRAM 6 PM
EDGAR JORGE BARALT
INSTALLATION
History - Daniel Dantas
PROGRAM FOUR 8 PM
Dear Motek - Gabi Rudin
The Year - Grace Mitchell
Semi-Precious - Kara Hansen
Damp Moss - Christopher Thompson
Language of the Entrails - Luciana Decker Orozco
Blue Bird - Yue Hua
APRIL 19th
The Jazz Gallery
926 East Center St.
PROGRAM FIVE 1 PM
The Muppet - Dan Black
Skeyesee - Jimmy Schauss
The Motherfuckers Birthday - Saif Alsaegh
5-cent American Flag - Vito A. Rowlands
Man Number 4 - Miranda Pennell
A Home Movie - Renato Umali
Jordan Wept - Astria S. & Brett K.
Adjunct - Drew Durepos
Souvenir Statuette - Sabine Gruffat
JUROR PROGRAM 3 PM
MAGDALENA BERMUDEZ
PROGRAM SIX 7 PM
Eighteen Mill Street - Josh WeissbachIn
Place of a Hollow Tree - Eislow Johnson
Stone, Hat, Ribbon, Rose - Eva Giolo
Another Rapid Event - Daniel Murphy
Sinking Feeling - Zachary Epcar
2025 JURORS & AWARDS
Magdalena Bermudez (she/they) is a filmmaker and educator whose practice examines the entangled relations between humans, nonhuman animals, and technologies through essayistic film and video works. Her practice is research-based, often recontextualizing scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal and political implications. Magda received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Athens International Film + Video Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Kasseler DokFest, Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinéma, İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and Science New Wave Festival. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema at Binghamton University.
Edgar Jorge Baralt (b.1988, Venezuela.) makes personal films and videos inspired by the malleability that cinema provides to the perception of time, place and self. He studied Film Production at the University of Central Florida, and obtained an M.F.A. in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been programmed at different international venues and festivals, including Berlinale, LA Filmforum, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, among others. He is currently based in Chicago and has taught filmmaking courses at CalArts, SAIC, UIC and Northwestern University.
2025 Awards
Best of festival was awarded to five films:
✦ Bisagras by Luis Arnias
✦ Language of the Entrails by Luciana Decker Orozco
✦ Souvenir Statuette by Sabine Gruffat
✦ Las Animas by Matt Feldman
✦ Blue Bird by Yue Hua
And our “Audience Choice Award” was awarded to Blue Bird by Yue Hua