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Tagged Mark Borchardt

Watch the Mark Borchardt-directed video for Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends’ “The Commuter”

Matt Wild
September 20, 2022
One of the most relentlessly catchy Milwaukee songs of 2022 has got to be "The Commuter," a three-minute ditty by post-rock/power-pop outfit Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends. The song was part of a split ...

Catch up with Mark Borchardt’s bite-sized film review show, ‘Cinephile’

Matt Wild
February 10, 2021
Late last year, Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt got animated. Literally. Along with Milwaukee-born filmmaker Frankie Latina, Borchardt launched an animated, bite-sized film review show called Cinephile. The ...

Mark Borchardt talks music videos, new film project

Matt Wild
May 22, 2019
To talk to Mark Borchardt—even, say, for 10 minutes over the phone—is to talk to an artist whose medium is existence itself. The Milwaukee filmmaker is a singular force of positivity, encouragement, and inspira...

Mark Borchardt to receive Backbone of Wisconsin Horror Award at Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival

Matt Wild
January 18, 2019
Mark Borchardt is a Milwaukee icon, as familiar as the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the shores of Lake Michigan, or the jean shorts on that guy who sells hot dogs on the corner of Wisconsin and Water in t...

You can finally buy Mark Borchardt’s UFO documentary, ‘The Dundee Project’

Matt Wild
November 28, 2018
Back in January 2017, we spoke to Milwaukee filmmaker/icon Mark Borchardt about his latest film, The Dundee Project. The 40-minute documentary—which chronicles the sights, sounds, and people of Dundee, Wisconsi...

Watch Mark Borchardt give a tour of Menomonee Falls and Milwaukee (circa 2000) on ‘Letterman’

Matt Wild
April 17, 2017
Mark Borchardt is a Milwaukee icon, as familiar as the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the shores of Lake Michigan, or the jean shorts on that guy who sells hot dogs on the corner of Wisconsin and Water...

Here’s the Justin Vernon-narrated trailer for Mark Borchardt’s ‘The Dundee Project’

Matt Wild
March 15, 2017
Back in January, we chatted with Milwaukee filmmaking maverick/icon Mark Borchardt about his new flick, The Dundee Project. Shot by Borchardt over several years beginning in the early 2000s, the film chronicles...

Mark Borchardt looks to the skies with latest film, ‘The Dundee Project’

Matt Wild
January 20, 2017
Ask Mark Borchardt what he's up to these days and you'll get a simple answer: working. The Milwaukee filmmaker may have found unlikely fame way back in 1999 as the subject of the documentary American Movie, but...

I watched ‘American Movie’ for the first time: A minute-by-minute recap

Maggie Iken
October 26, 2016
Living in Milwaukee for the past six years, being a member of the arts community, and having a general interest in weird-ass shit, it's astounding that I've never seen Chris Smith's 1999 documentary American ...

Now you can own the original soundtrack to Mark Borchardt’s ‘Coven’ (on vinyl!)

Matt Wild
April 20, 2016
//"Coven is a 35-minute direct-market thriller film shot on 16mm black and white reversal. It's an alcoholic, man, compelled to go to this group meeting by his one and only friend left. But they're not tha...

Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video

Matt Wild
April 12, 2016
//There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...

Help Milwaukee natives fund new comedy series, Shangri-L.A., featuring Mark Borchardt

Matt Wild
August 13, 2015
It’s a tale as old as time: aspiring filmmakers move to Los Angeles in hopes of fulfilling their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams; aspiring filmmakers watch as their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams get kicked, punched...

It’s all right! It’s okay! You can finally buy a Mark Borchardt T-shirt!

Matt Wild
January 14, 2015
In today’s “Why hasn’t this existed for the past 15 years?” news, you can finally buy your very own Mark Borchardt T-shirt. Yes, thanks to Milwaukee’s preeminent schlock filmmaker Frankie Latina (director of Mo...

Watch Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank on the set of Frankie Latina’s Snapshot

Matt Wild
January 6, 2015
Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...

It’s all right! It’s okay! Mark Borchardt to star in new web series!

Matt Wild
June 12, 2014
It’s been 15 years (!) since Chris Smith’s documentary American Movie introduced the world to embattled Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt. That film famously tagged along with Borchardt and lotto-loving BFF Mi...

Celebrate Milwaukee Day with this Milwaukee-tastic photo collage

Milwaukee Record Staff
April 14, 2014
Today, April 14 (4/14), Milwaukee celebrates Milwaukee Day, the greatest faux-holiday to be based on an area code (414). It’s a day to embrace and champion everything good and right in our fair city, and to sha...
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