Articles by Joseph Pethan

We sit down with senior filmmaker Stuart Blue to break down a scene from his thesis film, The Execution of a Painting. The film follows a young woman who, in exchange for a free workspace and lodging, must create works of art for which she never gets credit. In this interview, Blue discusses the filmmaking […]

We sit down with student filmmaker Grant Polifka, a senior currently in Brian McGuire’s Senior 2 film class, to break down a scene from his senior thesis film, The Wraith. locations to put together this scene. The film, in Polifka’s own words, is about a young man who is forced to reevaluate his relationship with […]

For the first time since the first Covid lockdown in the Spring of 2020, the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival will be taking place on its regularly scheduled dates, April 14-16, only one week before the Milwaukee Film Festival on April 21. The festival is unique due to the fact that it also serves as a […]

In the past several weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has become bigger than it ever has been. Wisconsin is currently at 470,— cases and has seen 4,539 deaths. The United States as a whole has seen 16.9 million cases with over 300K deaths. There have been individual days this month that are considered the deadliest days […]

Another deer gun season has come and gone in the state of Wisconsin, it has come and gone during the guaranteed soon to be historic year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2020 Deer Gun season last from November 21 to November 29, which is now currently coinciding at a time when covid-19 is so far […]

“They got it done and we didn’t.” Those were the words of head coach Coach Kliff Kingsbury used to summarize the Arizona Cardinals’ 34-31 loss over this past weekend to the visiting Miami Dolphins. The game ended when Arizona kicker Zane Gonzalez failed to make the potentially game-tying field goal in the final minutes of […]

There are many sounds that people have instantaneously come to associate with that of the fall season. Those sounds tend to include the sound of the sound of geese as they fly south, the sound of a crackling bonfire, and of course the crunching sound of leaves on the ground. A lesser known and appreciated […]

Essential workers give their testimonies during the Covid-19 pandemic.