post Cucalorus

sooooo Cucalorus is awesome. period. Unfortunately, by the time Food Not Bombs screened on Saturday morning I was at the onset of getting super duper sick, so I missed everything from Saturday morning onward. But I did get to do a lot before then, so it wasn't a total loss. I went to the kick off party for the first time, which was really fun to see some awesome music videos right before editing our own for class. On friday I saw Bunny and the Bull which was strange, but had a really cool visual style to it with a mixture of live action and animation. I also saw A Puppet Intervention which was a really nice documentary by a first time filmmaker, and then I saw The Red Chapel which was so awesome and twisted and morally wrong in so many different ways it was crazy. I don't even want to start thinking about all of the ways that the film was humanely wrong, so I'll just keep thinking about how awesome it was. Saturday morning Food Not Bombs screened with A New Kind of Listening, which was beautiful and had most of the senior citizen filled audience crying and blowing their noses by the final credits.

Andy and I also did the media literacy program on Wednesday, which I guess is also a part of Cucalorus. that was a ton of fun, but at the same time was a little weird that with all the family packed kids films they picked our illegal activist film to screen with them. It was slightly awkward to try to answer these 2nd graders' questions in the q&a by telling them that dumpster diving is good, but don't go do it yourself, which all of them wanted to do. The lady running it even had to make a disclaimer saying that "Cucalorus nor UNCW endorses this behavior, we just want you to learn about world hunger". It was fun though to watch them watch it and see their reactions, especially when Andy was in the film and you could hear them saying to their neighbor "oooh! its that man over there! he's right there!" I never understand why kids struggle so much with volume perception, but its funny all the same.