Susan Kerns (She/Her)
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Susan Kerns (She/Her)
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MKE Film & Mke Film Festival. Professor, writer, filmmaker. Refocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman out now from Edinburgh UP.
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Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year.

Here's who it will affect and what will happen if the subsidies are allowed to expire:
Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire?
Here’s a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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From Executive Producer Michael Moore and Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers.
Tickets for From Ground Zero 10/2 at 7 PM and more Milwaukee Muslim Film Fest screenings: mkefilm.org/mmff
September 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Charing Cross Tube Station has been temporarily renamed Haring Cross in tribute to Keith Haring’s iconic artwork.

There are free prints & a temporary gallery in a usually unused part of the station, displaying 2 original 1986 artworks featuring Absolut Vodka

Open 17 - 18th Sep
September 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New silent auction items just dropped! Including a 3-night stay at The Dunes for $100 and VERY reasonably priced VERY fancy booze! Closes Sunday and all proceeds support Milwaukee Film my.onecause.com/event/organi...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Ben Shahn
Natchez, Mississippi
October 1935

In the early 1930s, Shahn learned a great deal from Walker Evans, whose studio he shared. But Shahn did very little picture taking after he left the Farm Security Administration in 1938.
September 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Holding Liat screens Thurs, Sept 18, 6:30pm at Milwaukee Film’s Oriental Theater as part of the Dialogues Doc Fest. One screening only so a must see!
"★★★★ Powerful and complex... HOLDING LIAT is a valuable work" – @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Winner, Documentary Award, Berlinale

In UK cinemas this Friday
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Holding Liat review: ‘A loving family rent apart by October 7’ ★★★★

www.thejc.com/life/holding...
Holding Liat review: ‘A loving family rent apart by October 7’ ★★★★ - The Jewish Chronicle
This documentary reveals the anguish and shock of a family torn asunder by the massacre, and its attempt to reconcile the horror with their politics of peaceful coexistence
www.thejc.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Documentary "Holding Liat" examines the anguish of a hostage family in Israel. "We are being led by crazy people on both sides,” he complains, reserving particular contempt for Netanyahu, whom he believes to be using the suffering to extend his political life.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliation
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisions
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There's an interesting section in David Foster Wallace's piece about Lynch's Lost Highway, where he talks about the difference between Lynch and Tarantino (and how much Lynch was an influence on a whole crop of filmmakers)
February 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Susan is here to tell you a little bit more about the upcoming fest, and Robyn is here to... make sure you're really listening 😡💕
Explore the ever-changing world of Documentary Film with us at Dialogues Documentary Film Festival presented by Potawatomi Casino Hotel Sept 18–21: mkefilm.org/ddf
#mke
August 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We had a wonderful time on Wednesday introducing several films featured in the 2025 Dialogues Documentary Fest! Thank you to everyone who came out for a preview of DDF movie magic starting September 18th through the 21st.
Make sure not to miss out: mkefilm.org/ddf #documentaryfilm #filmfestival
September 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Julia Sweeney spoke with the director of a new documentary called We Are Pat after the IFC screening tonight. I've shared my thots. My ★★★★★ review of It's Pat on Letterboxd boxd.it/9ZctG1 ☯️
f. @papapishu.bsky.social & @screenslate.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Michael Schultz surprised folks by stopping by last night’s Black Lens happy hour and screening of The Last Dragon! Don’t miss his Q&As today for Car Wash and Cooley High at Milwaukee Film’s Oriental Theatre! youtu.be/YFbwmvg3M5c?...
Cooley High (1975) Trailer
YouTube video by The Duke Mitchell Film Club
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The NY Art Book Fair doubles as a tremendous display space for agit-prop and activist posters and graphics.

Absolutely worth checking out for that alone, if that's one of your interests.

At MOMA PS1.

nyabf2025.printedmatterartbookfairs.org/visit
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Very proud of Jay! One of my fave former students 💖
September 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Happy New Liquid Mike Record Day and New Jens Lekman Record Day to all who partake
September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#AugustMovieChallenge
#Moviesky
Day 26 - African American Role Model in a Movie
Richard Pryor in Car Wash!
August 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Flipo con la carrera del direcor afroamericano MICHAEL SCHULTZ. Lo de los mosaicos no es NADA: con 86 años, sigue al pie del cañón dirigiendo episódicos de todo tipo (de Starsky & Hutch a Found pasando por New Girl o Allie McBeal), dirigió musicales de Broadway o videoclips de los Fat Boys. MI ÍDOLO
September 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bored at work today? Check out the variety of things in the Milwaukee Film silent auction! Movie-themed art, fancy booze, a chat with Gordon Quinn, and a cult starter pack? Yes, please! my.onecause.com/event/organi...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I got to sit down with filmmaker Elaine Epstein and talk about her very relevant reproductive rights documentary ARREST THE MIDWIFE hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/arre...
SXSW '25: Elaine Epstein on Arrest the Midwife — Hyperreal Film Club
Filmmaker Elaine Epstein on her SXSW premiere of Arrest the Midwife, a documentary on the plight of three midwives in the Northeast.
hyperrealfilm.club
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Midwives are being criminalized for providing care in a system that’s failing pregnant people.
“Arrest the Midwife” follows 3 CPMs arrested in NY amid a worsening maternal mortality crisis.
📍Midwives save lives. Let them work.

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Amid a Maternal Mortality Crisis, Midwives Are Being Targeted 
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"Arrest the Midwife," a new documentary that debuted at @sxsw.com this year, follows a criminalized midwife, the Mennonite women who rallied behind her, and the political battle to legalize life-saving care.
msmagazine.com/2025/05/04/a...
Midwifery Is as Old as Birth Itself. Why Are We Still Fighting for It?
As long as women have been giving birth, people have assisted mothers and newborns up to and through childbirth—making midwifery one of the world’s oldest occupations. The International Day of the Mid...
msmagazine.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM