Acting

Carl Bogner

Born — Died

1962-03-17 — 2024-12-15

Known for

Acting

Credits

5 titles

Carl Bogner was a teacher, mentor, curator, writer, actor, a lifelong cinephile and voracious reader. Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carl was on the Film faculty at the Peck School of the Arts from 1999 until his retirement in 2022. In honor of his work there and as Director for over twenty years of Milwaukee’s internationally renowned LGBT Film/Video Festival, he was awarded the P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on behalf of the LGBT community in 2023. Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1984, Carl began his career as a bookseller in Virginia before moving to Madison in 1987. A year later, he…

Known for

Rocky VI poster
NR

Meredith is down in the dumps after getting kicked out of her band, until the ghost of Rocky Rococo shows up to help her out!

Rocky VI

2019

My Neighbor poster
NR

Based upon a short story (of the same name) by Franz Kafka, My Neighbor deals with anxiety and suspicion. This film was produced in conjunction with the Experimental Narrative Filmmaking class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the spring of 2002.

My Neighbor

2002

No artwork available
NR

Depicts the daily life of "Layton House," a fictional therapeutic community, where doctors live with their schizophrenic patients. The characters and events of Layton House were drawn from writings of the anti-psychiatry movement , whose most famous proponent was R.D. Laing. In this film we see experimental therapies, power struggles, and the individual arcs of mental illness converge, as a community struggles to understand itself and determine its destiny.

Threads of Belonging

2003

Corridor poster
NR

An inept security guard thinks he's in a crime thriller after eavesdropping on a corporate murder scheme. He entangles an unlikely assortment of night owls in a series of mishaps and misunderstandings to unravel the mystery.

Corridor

2024

Robert on his Lunch Break poster
NR

Robert is a bookish, somewhat withdrawn entry-level office clerk waiting for a to-go order of food. While getting a breath of fresh air and staring into space, he's accosted by Bradley, a disembodied head with eyes like drains who begins to berate him--perhaps telepathically--with petty insults disguised as good advice.

Robert on his Lunch Break

2010

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles