Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Winners

MUFF (what a great abbreviation for an undergound film fest!) announced its awards this week, where top prizes get a whopping $100. To be fair, the prize winner at the Boston Undergound Film Festival recieved vibrating bunny statues. We do what we can...

The winners are:

TOKYO-EBISU

Tomonari Nishikawa - 5 min, 16mm, 2010 (Binghamton, NY)

IN BETWEEN


IN BETWEEN from Mike Stoltz on Vimeo.

Mike Stoltz - 4.5 min, 16mm, 2006 (Providence, RI) 

ALIKI

Richard Wiebe - 5 min, video, 2010 (Iowa City, IA) 

ANIMA MUNDI

Kate Balsley - 3.5 min, video, 2010 (Brown Deer, WI)

Milwaukee is an interesting hub of experimental and underground film, mostly centered around the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and while it's culture and scene are inevitably compared to the juggernaut of an art/film scene 2 hours to the south in Chicago, it remains distinct and resists formal institutionalization, which can't be said about the scene around Columbia College and the SAIC nowadays. But, really it's all good, in both Illinois and Wisconsin. And it's irresponsible to split hairs on issues of purity, making me sound like a pretentious jack-ass.