MUFF 2023 PROGRAM
OPENING NIGHT Thursday, April 13th @ UWM UNION CINEMA (2200 E Kenwood Blvd)
7:00 PM - Shorts Program 1
After Work by Ben Rivers & Celine Condorelli
The Miracle on Green George by Onyeka Igwe
NE Corridor by Joshua Gen Solondz
Into The Violet Belly by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
False Wife by Jamie Crewe
FRIDAY, April 14th @ Company Brewing (735 E Center St)
6:00 PM - Shorts Program 2
Object Permanence by Alix Blevins
Terror Has No Shape by Luis Arnías
Dakhla by Nicholas Leffel
Light Signal by Emily Chao
What Rules the Invisible by Tiffany Sia
Hors-Titre by Wiame Haddad
Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way by Rhea Storr
SATURDAY, April 15th @ Company Brewing (735 E Center St)
2:00 PM - Shorts Program 4
With the tide, with the tide by Anna Kipervaser
As/Is Natasha Woods
Lesser Choices by Courtney Stephens
SAYOR by Kathryn Ramey
Phantom and Child by Ashley Dequilla
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion by Eva Giolo
The Sky’s in There by Dani & Sheila ReStack
8:00 PM - Shorts Program 5
Recortes by Kimberly-Arnías
The Folder by Orr Menirom
Exterior Turbulence by Sofia Theodore-Pierce
Bigger on the Inside by Angelo Madsen Minax
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
SPECIAL GUESTS
Simon Liu is an artist filmmaker whose films, video installations, and expanded cinema performances have been exhibited at film festivals and museums globally including the Berlinale, TIFF, NYFF, IFFR, Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Shed, M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, MOCA Los Angeles, “Dreamlands: Expanded”, and a solo-program at the Museum of Modern Art as part of their Modern Mondays series. His work is in the permanent collections of the M+ Museum and MoMA. Liu is a teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art, a member of the artist-run film lab Negativeland, and is currently editing his first feature film Staffordshire Hoard.
8:30 PM - Special Guest: Simon Liu
Simon Liu (b. 1987) is an artist filmmaker whose films, video installations, and expanded cinema performances have been exhibited at film festivals and museums globally. Simon will be presenting a hour-long solo program, featuring works of expanded cinema and single channel films.
8:00 PM - Shorts Program 3
Language Unknown by Janelle VanderKelen
Faces in the Wild by Magdalena Bermudez
On Unshaped Dialogue by Charlotte Clermont
Color Negative by Sara Sowell
Estuary by Ross Meckfessel
Instant Life by OJOBOCA & Andrew Kim
6:00 PM - Special Guest: Paige Taul
Paige Taul is an Oakland, CA native who received her B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in cinematography from the University of Virginia and her M.F.A in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, IL. Paige will be presenting a solo program of recent short films.
Paige Taul is an Oakland, CA native who received her B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in cinematography from the University of Virginia and her M.F.A in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, IL.