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2018 Social Cinema Series

Social Cinema is presented in collaboration with the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee. The series is free and open to all.

For more information on each film, click on the links below.

  • A black and white image of an outdoor protest. People stand in single file in front of a low-slung building and trees. They carry signs that read: "We tryed (sic) to get the patients better conditions at Waldons and Danner made us pay with our jobs"; "Local 275 supports...workers' right to organize!"; and "the right to collective bargaining - it's the law!". No person wears a coat or hat, which suggests temperate weather.

    The Organizer

  • A room is filled with shelves filled with bright blue bins. In front of the shelves are rectangular boxes stacked into high towers. Many of the boxes are marked with red and orange tape, as well as a series of numbers and letters. Inside the boxes are untested rape kits.

    I Am Evidence

  • An underwater image of a yellow, green, and brown sea turtle, with its flippers outstretched. The beak of the sea turtle is covered by a clear plastic bag, floating upside down, which looks slightly white in the water. In the background, the ocean floor is covered by seaweed and sand. The water is an intense blue.

    A Plastic Ocean

  • A group of people hold a banner in the street of an urban Chinese setting. They are present for a protest. They look to their right to the man at the left of the image, who appears to be speaking. Colorful advertisements cover the wall of the building behind the protestors. In the distance, a multistory building can be seen.

    Complicit

  • Three people attend a picket outside a red brick building. The first person is barely in frame, but they appear to wear a yellow and black shirt, and a messenger bag hangs at their hip. The image focuses on two men who appear to be in conversation. The man on the left has short gray hair, mustache, and beard. He wears frameless oval eyeglasses, and a blue button-down shirt. He holds paper handouts and a sign in yellow and blue that reads in part: "Aaron! Leading the fight for an affordable city"; the sign is mounted to a wood picket stave. The man on the right faces the man on the left, so his face is unseen. He has short dark hair and stubble. He wears a black leather jacket, and he holds a piece of paper in his hand.

    Company Town

  • A man holds aims a rifle inside an airplane interior. The man, Ronald Reagan, has short dark hair that is worn slicked back. He wears a white button-down shirt, brown tie with gold tie pin, brown pleated trousers, and a narrow belt with gold buckle. The interior walls of the airplane cabin are light blue, as is the airplane seat seen in the foreground. A woman stands to the right of Reagan wearing a beige blouse and skirt. She has blond shoulder-length hair and is smiling, despite appearing to lean away from the end of the rifle. Another woman with short blond hair, white blouse, and navy jacket appears in the foreground on a plane seat, also smiling and leaning away from the gun. A man with short dark hair and a smile stands to the left of Reagan. His hands are on his hips. He wears a white button-down, navy blue tie with white polka dots, navy blue trousers, and brown belt. In the background, through a doorway marked with a small white-on-red exit sign, another airplane cabin can be seen. A woman with curled blond hair in a black skirt suit, low black pumps, white blouse, and red bow.

    Shadow World

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