CUCALORUS

Screenings I attended:
Visual/sound/walls
Men & Chicken
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Water Warriors
Bend
Wilmington on Fire
Weird short film


I received a Pegasorus pass from my internship at Working Films since they were doing work for a few films at the festival. They were working on several works in progress documentaries, in particular, Water Warriors. As someone working in programming, it was interesting seeing works in progress films and performance pieces being programmed and scheduled in the festival. It adds another level to programming beyond trying to find films to screen.

The first event I went to was the Visual/sound/walls, which was really fun. I was thinking of how involved it must have been to set up and arrange all of the screens and the projectors to line up perfectly. It was a really smart way to exhibit the music videos in a social environment like that. In a party like that, there would be music playing any ways, but its nice to have the music videos playing to break the ice in meeting new people at an event like that.

For the first works in progress viewing that I went as apart of Working Films was Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. It was great being apart of the discussion process after the screening to help the filmmakers to improve future cuts of there film. The Water Warriors screening was actually more of presentation instead of a full screening, but it was very useful in seeing another filmmaker making a presentation for his film and getting feedback. I learned by observing the good and bad aspects of his presentation.

I think this festival was very well put together and they really a lock on who they are as a festival and they go with it. I think Visions could learn from this. I know Visions changes themes every year, but keeping a general tone like Cuculorus does would be powerful.