Linderman's "Timeline of Digestion"

UM Master of Fine Arts candidate Lucinda Linderman’s latest exhibition, Upcycled, transforms all manner of regularly discarded packaging—color-saturated plastic bags and containers, tin and aluminum cans, glass, graphic printed paper labels and wrappers—into fascinating sculptures mirroring her reverence for nature, her interest in living organisms, and her impatience with the increasing amount of garbage sent to landfills. Her show is a collection of pieces that, at first glance, appear to be intensely colored and textured abstract fiber artworks. A closer look, however, reveals twisted plastic, interwoven candy wrappers, bottle and can labels, and bits of metal that have been turned into complexly decorated organic forms. The exhibition is on view at the Wynwood Project Space, from its opening reception on Saturday, September 12 from 6 to 11 p.m. until October 3. Wynwood Project Space is located at 2200A NW Second Ave., Miami. After the opening event, the gallery will open by appointment. To schedule an appointment, call 423-785-6412 or 305-967-1543, or e-mail  [email protected] or [email protected]. Linderman’s work can be viewed at www.upcycledobject.com.

Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men film saga, unites Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) with several other legends of the X-Men comic book universe. This epic revolution pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Admission is $6 for UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Saturday, September 12 at 10:30 p.m. and on Sunday, September 13 at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Camila Jam tells the story of Camila, a young woman engaged in becoming a writer. Exploring her passion and her effort to support it, the film examines a female character who faces the abyss and gains from it her strength to exist. Leandra Leal’s tour de force performance earned her the Grande Premio Brasil for Best Actress (Brazil’s equivalent of the Academy Award).

This exclusive Cosford Cinema engagement made its Miami debut earlier this year at the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami. The film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for UM alumni, faculty, and staff and free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, September 11 at 9:15 p.m., Saturday, September 12 at 3:45  and 8:15 p.m. and Sunday, September 13 at 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

An early member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, and Philippe Noiret. In The Beaches of Agnes, stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the ’60s, and of life in her Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and fictional work. She is a mother and wife, a feminist, a nature lover, and an urban-dwelling artist. Above all, she is a woman in love with the cinema whose new movie perfectly expresses her sentiment. The film is in French with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for all University of Miami alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, September 11 at 7 p.m., Saturday, September 12 at 6:10 p.m., and Sunday, September 13 at 3:45 p.m. For more information about the French New Wave series, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

In an exclusive collaboration with Emerging Pictures, the School of Communication brings Italian opera to digital cinema with the presentation of eight operas filmed in crystal-clear high definition. The limited-engagement series opens with Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13 at 1 p.m.

In La Traviata Verdi tells the story of Violetta Valéry, a courtesan who falls in love and is forced to renounce her affair and retreat to Paris. This presentation, filmed at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, is Angela Gheorghiu’s La Scala debut as Violetta.

The opera series, which runs through December 20, includes La Boheme, Das Rheingold, Walküre, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Don Carlo, and L’Orfeo. All screenings will take place at the Bill Cosford Cinema in the Memorial Building on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. For showtimes and more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

General admission tickets are $20. Seniors, students, and UM faculty and staff pay $18. Florida Grand Opera members receive a special discounted rate of $18 as well.