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Grant Phipps

A Madison transplant, Grant has been writing about contemporary and repertory cinema since contributing to No Ripcord and LakeFrontRow; and he served as Tone Madison‘s film section editor for a handful of years before officially assuming an arts editor role in 2026. More recently, Grant has been involved with programming at Mills Folly Microcinema and one-off screenings at the Bartell Theatre. From mid-2016 thru early-2020, he also showcased his affinity for art songs and avant-progressive music on WSUM 91.7 FM. 🌱

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Grant's Latest Articles

Sigra faces the camera in a still from the "Honeycore" music video directed by Jake Viaene. She poses in the corner of a room embellished with artifacts, metallurgy, and taxidermy (lepidoptera) from her own 27 Bones Studio amidst a red wall of partially torn show posters to her right and plain white blinds dangling below a windowsill to her left.
Sigra’s singular, indefatigable, otherworldly art
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June 27, 2022

The local experimental pop artist, bassist, poet, and artisan headlines Dark Horse ArtBar on June 30.

Madison-based DJ Sarah Akawa is shown posing in a shark costume. Behind Akawa are DJ controllers and a laptop, and in the background is a crowd filling a room at Robinia Courtyard
A few Madison events, June 27 through July 3, 2022
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June 26, 2022

A Hot Summer Gays Halloween, and a rich mix of experimental film and music.

Musician William Z. Villain is shown seated in a dark blue suit, playing a white acoustic guitar and looking down at the fretboard.
A few Madison events, June 20 through 26, 2022
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June 19, 2022

Music in bulk, music any old place, at the Social Justice Center Jubilee, Garver, and elsewhere, and oh what the hell music everywhere!

The four members of LINE are shown leaning against a blue convertible.
A few Madison events, June 13 through 19, 2022
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June 12, 2022

Pride with LINE, a long-delayed celebration of Dirtnap Records, and more.

A publicity photo shows seven members of the musical act Kaleta & Super Yamba Band, standing in two rows, wearing bright clothes. Five of the members are facing the camera and two are looking somewhere off to the side.
A few Madison events, June 6 through 12, 2022
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June 5, 2022

The return of Waterfront Fest, tons of jazz, and more events of note in Madison this week.

Two images of an iMac in the education room on the third floor of Arts + Literature Laboratory where the Found Footage And Collage Cinema class has been held this spring. This simple collage plays with Maya Deren's philosophy of narrative, and the differences between horizontal "attack of drama" (on the right, a blank screen, in black and white) and the vertical "investigation of a situation" that poetically probes the ramifications of the moment (at more of a close-up on the left, working with Adobe Premiere, in color).
Moving vertically in a horizontal reality
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May 27, 2022

A personal essay on moving beyond mere movie criticism with an adult education class in film production.

At Garver Feed Mill, artist Ray Carruthers hangs an assortment of blue garments on clotheslines in frigid conditions for the exhibit "Fashion Is Forever." In the foreground, a mound of differently colored balled-up clothing sprawls out in a mound of snow.
“Winter Is Alive” in a new documentary encapsulating the spirited insight of the Madison artist community
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May 9, 2022

Aaron Granat and Gracie Wallner's short film on the 2021 winter carnival, produced by the Madison Arts Commission and Edna Wiechers Arts In Wisconsin Award, premieres at Garver Feed Mill on May 12 after dark.

The 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival diaries
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April 27, 2022

Five writers detail their experiences of returning to the first in-person festival in Madison since April 2019.

The Four Star podcast visits the Valley, fer sure
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April 18, 2022

To mark the occasion of UW Cinematheque's 35mm presentation of Martha Coolidge's "Valley Girl" (1983) on April 22, Hanna Kohn, C Nelson-Lifson, Lewis Peterson, and Grant Phipps talk about its production, legacy, and Nicolas Cage.

“Shared Resources” sensitively frames family bonds and collective creativity
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April 7, 2022

Emerging documentarian Jordan Lord shares insight into their multifaceted film, which is screening at the Chazen Museum Of Art on April 9 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival.