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  Blau is co-founder of the Department of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which he chaired  for twenty years. Widely known for its experimental and interdisciplinary orientation, in 2011 the UWM Film Department was named one of the twenty-five best film schools in the world by the Hollywood Reporter.
  
  Blau has mentored numerous prize-winning students.
  Among them is  filmmaker Chris Smith, whose American Movie, won  the Grand Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was later listed as one of the 1000 best films ever made by the New York Times.  

  Some of Blau’s films include Up the Block One Sunday (1982), Tintinnabula (1986), and Jidyll (1990), all of which are currently distributed by Canyon Cinema.

  • Watch Films by Dick Blau on Vimeo
  • Watch an excerpt from “Oh,Rapunzel” (a collaboration with Cecelia Condit)

  
  

  In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Blau has also performed in films by Stuart Sherman, James Benning, and Robert Nelson’s Hamlet Act (1982).