Becoming Horse Girl movie series: Desert Hearts
5 PM Chazen Auditorium
'My mother is a horse. An exhibition by Cat Birk' artist Cat Birk introduces the film and it's connection to their exhibition.
5:15PM
Dessert Hearts screening
Desert Hearts shows the propulsion of queer desire that pushes us to become something that we know ourselves to be. Seeing queer desire, Vivian, the protagonist, is empowered – albeit slowly and hesitantly – to experience it for herself. The film captures the rancher chic aesthetic of the horse girl DNA. Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: jprey@chazen.wisc.edu
Becoming Horse Girl movie series: Piaffe
5 PM Garfield Gallery
Tour 'My mother is a horse. An exhibition by Cat Birk' with Cat Birk.
5:30 PM Auditorium
Piaffe film screening
Piaffe illustrates the erotics of the relationship between self and image during the process of identity formation. Eva, the protagonist, quite literally transforms into a horse girl, and gains confidence in her new embodiment. Finding her new form while recreating the sounds of a horse, Eva shows tenderness and potential in the gesture of replication. Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: jprey@chazen.wisc.edu
16:9—Reframing Glass
How can we reframe glass? Can we view it through a different lens? Emcee’d by visiting artist and critic May Maylisa Cat, 16:9—Reframing Glass is a film festival screening a diverse collection of works from UW Glass alumna, exploring themes such as: identity, culture, language, surveillance, and superstition. Centering glass and video as primary mediums, this curation also dives into performance art and materiality, showcasing the interplay between tradition and innovation. Lobby/Auditroium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-8 p.m. Cost: Free and open to the public. Information: 616-2594, helen.lee@wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinematic Messages From Our Planet
Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Bowie is Thomas Jerome Newton, a slightly advanced humanoid-alien sent to our world to find a way to save his own dying home planet. Newton brings along several inventions that make him wealthy but don’t alleviate his tremendous loneliness. Roeg’s brilliantly fragmented storytelling style takes the film beyond an exploration of outer space into the inner space of Newton's mind as he struggles to cope with life on Earth. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinematic Messages From Our Planet
Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson
Junior high-schooler Ben (Hawke, in his first movie), the recipient of interstellar psychic instructions for space travel, recruits nerdy pal Wolfgang (Phoenix) and tough kid Darren (Presson) to help him build a spacecraft out of a rusted Tilt-a-Whirl carriage. The boys’ odd and surprising journey beyond the stars and their encounter with alien life is rendered with a bounty of classic movie references and satirical flourish. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinematic Messages From Our Planet
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith
Responding to the real-life Voyager I probe’s message of peace, an extraterrestrial visitor spectacularly crashes its own spacecraft just outside of Madison, WI and takes on the form of a recently deceased earthling (Bridges, in an Oscar-nominated performance). The dead man’s grieving widow (Allen) reluctantly accompanies the gentle-but-awkward alien on a road trip to the Southwest, all the while dodging dangerous government officials. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
Day With(out) Art
The Chazen Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS by presenting 'Everyone I Know Is Sick,' a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.
From 12-5, the program, 'Everyone I Know is Sick' will stream on a loop in the auditorium.
Meanwhile, WUD Art, Communication Madison, Vivent Health, and Sex Out Loud will share free art activities, information, and conversation around the AIDS crisis and queer activism in the lobby. Chazen Museum of Art. 12-5 p.m. Information: jprey@chazen.wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinema in the Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Cast: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn
Beatty stars as Joe Frady, a journalist obsessed with the assassination of a Kennedy-esque candidate. His investigation leads him to the mysterious Parallax Corporation, which just might be a recruiting organization for assassins. Along with director Pakula’s All the President’s Men, this is a bonafide Hollywood classic of political paranoia. 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinema in the Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo
Eastwood is a veteran secret service agent, haunted by his inability to protect JFK in 1963 and now on the hunt for Malkovich, a chameleonic would-be presidential assassin. Both are in top form in Petersen’s sharply scripted thriller. A sterling supporting cast, several shocking twists, and a bevy of supremely suspenseful set-pieces all conspire to make this sleek cinematic rollercoaster one of the best of the 90s. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
At the Chazen: Cinema in the Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Toshiro Mifune
This thinly veiled and hyper-paranoiac take on the JFK assassination stars Bridges as Nick Kegan, the scion of a fabulously wealthy and powerful family headed by patriarch Huston (“the real delight of the film” — Vincent Canby, The New York Times). Nick soon finds himself going down multiple rabbit holes while trying to unravel the conspiracy behind the murder of a U.S. president, his older brother. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu