The North Central Louisiana Council will continue its Indie Film Series this week with “Feels Good Man” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17.
The film screening will take place in Wyly Tower Auditorium on Louisiana Tech’s campus. A Q&A session will follow the film. Participants can also follow along with a virtual screening at nclac.org/film-screening.
“Feels Good Man” takes viewers on a wild journey through various corners of the internet to show how far one’s creation can get away from their original intention and explores the power of symbols and iconography.
Created by San Francisco based artist Matt Furie in the early 2000s, Pepe the Frog started as a peaceful, laid-back character based off of the misadventures of Furie and his post-college friends. After a bizarre series of events, the factions of the internet that heavily imprinted on Pepe went to the extreme lengths of “ironic” bigotry to keep him under their control. In the film, various artists, psychologists, lawyers and internet culture analysts share their perspective on this iconic cartoon frog wrenched from its original context.
