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The dense storytelling of “The Beast” connects our parasocial past, present, and future
Bertrand Bonello’s latest psychological, postmodernist period drama premieres locally at AMC Fitchburg 18 on April 26.
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“Light Needs” and “Parallel Botany” use the film medium as a means to map plant consciousness
Jesse McLean’s feature documentary, Magdalena Bermudez’s experimental short, and three other botanical shorts screen in a Wisconsin Film Festival program on April 6.
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“Message From Our Planet” captures humanity obsessed with studying and rediscovering itself
In an exhibit running through June 2 at the Chazen Museum of Art, technology provides us the opportunity for our productive failures to find new means of expression.
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“The Apocalyptic Is The Mother Of All Christian Theology” rebuilds a cultural portrait of Paul the Apostle through a collage of biblical media
Mills Folly Microcinema concludes their 2023 screening year with Jim Finn’s latest experimental documentary on December 13.
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“Earth II” is a mixtape of Hollywood destruction fantasies
Anti-Banality Union’s experimental video essay screens at MMoCA’s Rooftop Cinema on August 24 at sundown.
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Paige Taul’s films cohere in a multifaceted portrait of Black identity and class mobility
Mills Folly Microcinema presents a swath of Taul’s work at Arts + Literature Laboratory on June 14, followed by a virtual Q&A.
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“Jeanne Dielman” has changed, and continues to change, our relationship with cinema itself
Chantal Akerman’s newly crowned greatest film of all time screens free at MMoCA on June 11 in conjunction with the museum’s Christina Ramberg exhibition.
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Form follows function in “Geographies Of Solitude” and “The Tuba Thieves” and their sensory studies of the natural world
The experimental documentaries by Jacquelyn Mills and Alison O’Daniel make their local premieres at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 14, 15, and 16.
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The essayistic “Terra Femme” poetically explores early travel films by women
Filmmaker Courtney Stephens visits Mills Folly Microcinema with a live-narrated “feminist retrieval” on April 12.
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Project Projection returns with a stirring slate of locally produced music videos and experimental video art
Mills Folly Microcinema hosts the first 2023 showcase of work by Madison-based filmmakers and artists at Arts + Literature Laboratory on March 15.
