![]() ![]() Along with fellow jurors, professor/filmmaker Kate Balsley and choreographer/filmmaker Abigail Kruger, I sat down to watch 36 Wisconsin-affiliated short films on one Saturday in February, and then five features the following day. This past winter, when Ben Reiser, Director of Operations at the Wisconsin Film Festival, asked me to be a part of the fest’s Golden Badger Jury (following such distinguished Tone Madison voices as Edwanike Harbour in 2019 and Jason Fuhrman in 2022), I saw the opportunity as a chance to more formally put these self-motivated skills to the test. ![]() For years, I became accustomed to saying I don’t keep a journal, because all of those thoughts are encapsulated in stacks of college-ruled, dated film notebooks. This is only magnified by my penchant to take notes about my first impressions of what I experience in crooked lines and lettering in the dark of the theater or my own room. Louis Schwartz’s decades-spanning “American Genre Film”), I’ve treated the act of watching movies like their own microcosmic courses in and of themselves. Since I was 20 and enrolled in my first film class (Dr. Maybe more of a sheltered or sacred, edifying endeavor. ![]() Over my lifetime, the act of watching movies has become progressively more personal-for me it’s not exactly “escapism,” but not quite as strenuous “work” as many might define it either. ![]()
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