The 2020 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival will run from September 15th-October 27th right here on our website! We have six programs and each program will premiere on a Tuesday night at 5pm CST with a live Q&A at 8pm CST. After the program’s premiere night, a majority of the films will remain in the showcase for one week (with filmmaker permission, of course). So, come back here on September 15th at 5pm CST to start your six weeks of international, contemporary, artist made, short films, programmed by students from the Film Department at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee! The 2020 Festival will be a collaboration with Experimental Tuesdays at the UWM Union Cinema.

The schedule:

Sept 15: 5pm CST – Opening Night: Program 1 (program available until Sept 22)8pm CST – LIVE Q&ASept 22: 5pm CST- Program 2 available (program available until Sept 29)8pm CST – LIVE Q&ASept 29: 5pm CST – Program 3 available (program available until Oct 6)8pm CST – LIVE Q&AOct 6: 5pm CST – Program 4 available (program available until Oct 13)8pm CST – LIVE Q&AOct 13: 5pm CST – Program 5 available (program available until Oct 20)8pm CST – LIVE Q&AOct 20: 5pm CST – Program 6 available (program available until Oct 27)8pm CST – LIVE Q&A

2020 MUFF SCHEDULE:

Program 1: Opening Night, TRT: 77 minutesPremieres September 15, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available September 15 – 22Re-Education of the Senses – Erinn E. Hagerty & Adam Savje, USA, 2019, 11:44Bright Orange – Allison Radomski, USA, 2019, 9:55There Were Four of Us – Cassie Shao, USA & China, 2019, 6:47Earth FM – Philip Rabalais, USA, 2019, 10:35Scenes from the Periphery – Derek Taylor, USA, 2019, 2:50Umbilical – Danski Tang, USA/China, 7:00Temple of Truth – Giuseppe Boccassini, USA, 2018, 10:00Valdediós – Elena Duque, Spain, 2019, 3:11Scopophobia – Lasha Mowchun & Dylan Baillie, Canada, 2019, 10:34

Program 2: Versions of Visions, TRT: 69 minutesPremieres September 22, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available September 22 – 29Hung, Drawn and Quartered – Michael Higgins, Ireland / Switzerland, 2018, 2:46Billy – Zachary Epcar, USA, 2019, 8:00Jealousy – Kimberly Burleigh, USA, 2020, 7:18Suburban Versions – Stephen Wardell,  USA, 2020, 7:33Itinerary of Surfaces – Carl Elsaesser, USA, 2020, 8:00Are You My Mother? – Jack Furtado, USA, 2018, 5:33I Was Born Out Like a Fish – Tyler Macri, USA, 2019, 5:00Earth had issues Loading – Leonardo Pirondi, USA, 2020, 9:10Field Resistance – Emily Drummer, USA, 2019, 15:45

Program 3:  Here: Now or Then, TRT: 76 minutesPremieres Sept. 29th, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available September 29 – October 6¡PÍFIES! – Ignacio Tamarit, Argentina, 2016, 4:00Becoming – Alex Morelli, USA, 2020, 11:00Capital Punishment, Trisha Young, USA, 2019, 11:38Revision – Mikhail Zheleznikov, Russia, 2020, 3:42Porto Landscape – Michael Lyons, Portugal/Japan, 2018, 6:00The Pit – Jona Gerlach, USA, 2019, 10:51In Paris, I tango for Maria (take 2) – Taylor Yocom, USA, 2019, 8:45Something To Touch That Is Not Corruption Or Ashes Or Dust – Mike Stoltz, USA, 2020, 6:45Garden City Beautiful – Ben Balcom, USA, 2019, 12:00Oh My Homeland – Stephanie Barber, USA, 2019, 3:50

Program 4: Dispatch, TRT: 72 minutesPremieres October 6th, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available October 6 – 13Private Properties – Lilli Carré, USA, 2019, 3:23Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness – Saif Alsaegh, USA, 2019, 8:45To: you, to night – Hân Phạm, Canada/Vietnam, 2020, 9:03Confrontations – Natasha Woods, USA, 2018, 11:00En Mi Pueblo – Paolo Zuñiga, Mexico, 2019, 4:55Lore – Sky Hopinka, USA, 2019, 10:00Medusa and The Abyss – Felicity E. Palma, Italy/USA, 2019, 10:57y un gato de porcelana (and a porcelain cat) – Juana Robles, Spain/Ireland, 2020, 4:20Valpi – Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, Australia/Chile, 2019, 9:00

Program 5: … but make it Punk, TRT: 69 minutesPremieres October 13th, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available October 13 – 20No Garden Beyond – Anna Kipervaser & Rhys Morgan, Bermuda, 2019,Pirate Boys – Pol Merchan, Germany, 2018, 13:00Missing Teeth – Tyrone Deise, Canada, 2018, 3:09RUN! – Malic Amalya, USA, 2019, 10:00A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal, May 1973 – Ryan Betschart, USA, 2019, 6:17The left hand of darkness – Sara Bonaventura, USA/Singapore, 2019, 4:10They Looked at Me and I Smiled – Ben Edelberg, Canada, 2019, 11:43Nest Visions –  Zack Parrinella, USA, 2019, 8:30

Program 6: Longing // Aging, TRT: 73 minutesPremieres October 20th, 5pm CST, Live Q&A at 8pm, Available October 20 – 27Exit Strategy #5 – Kym McDaniel, USA, 2020, 8:00Who Wants to Fall in Love? – Emily Van Loan, USA, 2019, 6:06Angles – Robyn Ehrlich, USA, 2019, 4:46Transparent, the world is. – Yuri Muraoka, Japan, 2019, 7:14grand-maman Piano – Guillaume Vallée, Canada, 2020, 5:00What You Left Behind – Jayce Kolinski, USA, 2020, 5:50The Lilac Game – Emma Piper-Burket, USA, 2019, 4:14Lost in her hair(Monday) – Pegah Pasalar, Iran, 2019, 6:27One Off – Sofia Theodore-Pierce, USA, 2019, 13:09LIMEN – Kathryn Ramey, USA, 2019, 12:00