Cucalorus Experience

Essentially I did not get to see most of the films I intended to watch in my blog, but the ones I did see offered varying degrees of quality.

Perhaps the most interesting block I saw was Anti-Porno. Originally I was interested in this because it touches on the risqué topic of porn. The opening short animation called "Vagina" was well done because it offered a calming and easy to understand narrative which involved a womans vagina to come alive as a "pussy". (Ha) The actual feature we saw was bad though. Bad in that it presented sensitive topics such as abuse in the porn industry and the dangers of certain tropes such as the submissive woman being abused and raped. It never came full circle to identify itself and provide a real critique on such atrocities and simply failed to offer any meaningful argument.

I did get to meet Jen Proctor with Gabby, who presented an awesome short critiquing the tropes of females in bathtubs. I enjoyed discussing with her about how damaging these tropes are and even got to friend her on facebook!

My favorite experience was getting to hangout in the filmmakers lounge with several of my friends such as Christian and just get to talk about some of the screenings we saw. I also enjoyed the Convulsions blocks because who doesn't love some crazy ass films?

If I was a filmmaker presenting my own work I would have a set of answers to specific questions in my head...although from what I understand younger filmmakers are normally not taken as seriously in Cucalorus which is a little irritating but nonetheless I do plan on submitting Tumbleweed for next year!

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  1. silvashanDecember 2, 2017 at 7:01 AM

    Absolutely submit for next year. It's always fun to be a filmmaker in attendance. And now you won't be going in uncertain of what to expect. Fabulous!

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