 Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Sunday and beyond on Tuesday 04/24/2012Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More  The end: Day five of the 2012 Wisconsin Film FestivalRyan Billingham on Monday 04/23/2012The goal was 17 films. I know at least one person set his goal at 19 which seems like the "kill screen" in a game of Tetris. Just barely possible. For me, 17 wasn't possible. I failed. As the last movie of the Wisconsin Film Festival, Elena, was about to begin I was sitting in the balcony of The Orpheum in a daze. >More Hug me, please? Day four of the Wisconsin Film FestivalRyan Billingham on Monday 04/23/2012Saturday's five-film slate turned this year's experience from a vacation into a journey. By the end of the day I had watched as young Russian girls were exploited by a culture that worships youth, the dark side of cancer awareness marketing expressed with anger by women with Stage IV breast cancer and the life, times and early death of gay activist Vito Russo. It was a test of my emotional fortitude. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: SaturdayIsthmus Staff on Sunday 04/22/2012Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More A surge of enthusiasm: Day three of the 2012 Wisconsin Film FestivalRyan Billingham on Saturday 04/21/2012Here we are queued up. Bookish and pale yet oddly attractive. When we're not in a theater venue we're alternately chugging coffee and beer. Those of us without mints should give others a wide berth. On Friday, the sun came out and the Wisconsin Film Festival headed toward full speed. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: FridayIsthmus Staff on Friday 04/20/2012Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More Wisconsin Film Festival 2012: I Have Always Been a Dreamer contrasts Detroit and DubaiAustin Duerst on Friday 04/20/2012 11:40 amWinner of the Golden Badger award for Wisconsin Filmmaking, I Have Always Been A Dreamer by former UW-Madison communication arts professor Sabine Gruffat contrasts the cities of Detroit and Dubai. Part travelogue, part documentary, the film is centered in the context of a boom and bust economy and shows how each city's development is affected by technology. >More The gathering storm: Day two of the 2012 Wisconsin Film FestivalRyan Billingham on Friday 04/20/2012It was a rainy, gloomy Thursday, typical Wisconsin Film Festival weather, actually. And since it's one of film's lamest tropes, appropriate. Yet, the fest gained a second-day momentum, chugging along as buzz grew and the weekend loomed large. #wifilmfest is heating up as well, with tweets and posts ranging from giddy to cautionary to confounded. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: ThursdayIsthmus Staff on Thursday 04/19/2012Keep up with the action at the second day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More Wisconsin Film Festival 2012: Filthy Theater: A Film About Joel Gersmann looks back at a provocative Madison artistAustin Duerst on Thursday 04/19/2012 3:43 pmIn the summer of 1993, director Dan Levin attempted to make a film about Joel Gersmann, the playwright-provocateur who founded Broom Street Theater, and whose work was known to alienate and amuse the company's small audiences. Finding himself unable to relate to his subject, Levin abandoned the project, and the footage of one of Madison's most enigmatic and prolific artistic figures was shelved for 12 years. >More
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