Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
I attended the Milwaukee Underground Film Fest as a staff member for my class. I was at the first screening on Thursday, the last one on Saturday and everything on Sunday. The best film in Thursday's screening was a film called Maniac Landscapes which was an animation in which flowers grew and stretched across dark sections of rooms. The soundscape was very sinister. As the film progresses, the imagery gets more sinister. The flowers begin growing in and around skulls and eventually a hanging partial skeleton. The color scheme is dark but very bold. A lot of dark purple is used for the backgrounds and sharper pink tones are often used for the bones.
Another film I liked was Apex. I didn't understand any of it. Some girls stared with awkward expressions at a glowing orb. I assume the orb was the hole in reality mentioned in the text at the beginning of the film but it's difficult to tell. A snake moved around between the rocks. A lizard made an appearance. The film was just kind of weird overall but not in a bad way.
The film I liked the most at the last screening on Saturday was called Bennifer. Too much was going on in that film to give a quick summery here but the premise was an estranged son coming home after many years to find his home is much different than he remembered and not particularly welcoming. The humor was bleak, dark, and strange and the characters were extremely eccentric which is totally my style. The tone of the performances of all the characters varied wildly which was enjoyable to watch as well.
The program on Sunday was slow but enjoyable overall. My favorite film was Dog in the Shade in which we watch a bucket slowly fill with water and ends with a guy jumping out of a truck and running after it for, like, 8 minutes. We watch as he slowly recedes into the distance and the screen fills with a dry dirt road and rural fields.
Another film I liked was Apex. I didn't understand any of it. Some girls stared with awkward expressions at a glowing orb. I assume the orb was the hole in reality mentioned in the text at the beginning of the film but it's difficult to tell. A snake moved around between the rocks. A lizard made an appearance. The film was just kind of weird overall but not in a bad way.
The film I liked the most at the last screening on Saturday was called Bennifer. Too much was going on in that film to give a quick summery here but the premise was an estranged son coming home after many years to find his home is much different than he remembered and not particularly welcoming. The humor was bleak, dark, and strange and the characters were extremely eccentric which is totally my style. The tone of the performances of all the characters varied wildly which was enjoyable to watch as well.
The program on Sunday was slow but enjoyable overall. My favorite film was Dog in the Shade in which we watch a bucket slowly fill with water and ends with a guy jumping out of a truck and running after it for, like, 8 minutes. We watch as he slowly recedes into the distance and the screen fills with a dry dirt road and rural fields.
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