James Kreul curates Mills Folly Microcinema, an experimental film series at Arts + Literature Laboratory. He has programmed film screenings at UW-Cinematheque, Wisconsin Film Festival and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He received his Ph.D in Film Studies at the UW-Madison in 2005, and has taught courses in film production and film history. Since 2012, he has contributed film reviews and articles to Madison’s alternative weekly, Isthmus.
He is a moving image curator, critic, scholar, maker and enthusiast living in Madison, Wisconsin. Wittgenstein wrote that “the meaning of a word is its use in the language.” On this website, Kreul will use the term “film” based on its current general use in the language, rather than based on any definition rooted in medium specificity.