Podcast appearances and mentions of giorgio angelini

A short film from documentary maker Giorgio Angelini. It's about Luigi Mangione — but it's also, really, about everything in America right now."I finished making this video essay a couple of days before the fires took over wide swaths of Los Angeles, where I live. And while it might not seem directly connected—the assassination of a healthcare CEO and wildfires ravaging LA — after walking through the wreckage of the Altadena fire to survey the damage of my friend's home, I couldn't help but feel all of it was endemic. American carnage.We have lived through forty-plus years of a culture built on abject greed. We've constructed a national ego that has rewarded this individual greed, all at the expense of the collective. We've built a perverted moral armature that not only excuses this greed, but convinces us that it is somehow innate or unavoidable. Or that it is good, even.It is not. It is a choice. And it is a choice we can no longer make. Like so many in our city, I've been overwhelmed with emotions. Not only witnessing the unimaginable destruction, but also a feckless regime of entrenched private interests masquerading as public service.I've also seen the best of humanity. Dedicated first responders working tirelessly to prevent further tragedy under unimaginable conditions. I've seen communities come together to offer support. And then I've seen opportunists, offering emergency housing at ludicrous prices.It's going to take a long time to rebuild from here. But also, in this effort there is an opportunity, a choice we must make about what we actually want to build for the future.More totems to individualism?More American carnage?Or do we build community? Real community. Built on a radically reimagined moral grounding, where we recognize our responsibilities to one another. And take up that responsibility with enthusiasm, pride, and generosity." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.webworm.co/subscribe

I'm not sure if you've noticed recently, but discovering stuff on Netflix can be kind of hard. Sure — you're presented with a bunch of categories like “Top 10” when you login, but outside of those initial lists, finding things that are compelling and worth your time seems close to impossible. The compelling stuff is there — it's just buried. With that in mind, I feel very excited to be able to share two things from Giorgio Angelini, one of my favourite documentary makers. The first is something I've been wanting him to write forever — about what it was like to release his latest documentary on Netflix. Secondly — Giorgio's let me publish his latest short here on Webworm. It strikes at the heart of what's going on in America right now. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.webworm.co/subscribe

Giorgio Angelini is an award-winning filmmaker, perhaps best known for the documentary Feels Good Man, a collaboration between himself and Arthur Jones. Together again with Jones, they went on to make The Antisocial Network, bringing author and journalist Dale Beran into the project, which is out now on Netflix. The documentary features Internet Chronicle alum […]

It started as a low-tech online message board where people shared funny memes. Then users of 4chan began testing their influence offline, identifying targets for comeuppance and demonstrating against them. But some used the site to organize hacking attacks for social action, which drew the attention of the FBI. Others found an unchecked platform for extremism which eventually led to insurrection. The Netflix documentary The Antisocial Network: From Memes to Mayhem chronicles the rise of 4chan, from its early days as a snarky imageboard to a home for the hacktivists of Anonymous and conspiracy theorists of QAnon. It not only examines its grip on users stuck in its infinite scroll, but also its real life effects on technology, politics, and society. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews directors Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched The Antisocial Network yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

Director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini join moderator Chelsea Kai Roesch from UC Santa Barbara to discuss their film "Feels Good Man." They talk about working with artist Matt Furie and unpack the social and political contexts behind Pepe the Frog and its cooptation by the alt-right. They also reflect on the cinematic challenges in telling a story about the internet and discuss the larger implications of internet culture and political polarization in the United States. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39567]

Director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini join moderator Chelsea Kai Roesch from UC Santa Barbara to discuss their film "Feels Good Man." They talk about working with artist Matt Furie and unpack the social and political contexts behind Pepe the Frog and its cooptation by the alt-right. They also reflect on the cinematic challenges in telling a story about the internet and discuss the larger implications of internet culture and political polarization in the United States. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39567]

Director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini join moderator Chelsea Kai Roesch from UC Santa Barbara to discuss their film "Feels Good Man." They talk about working with artist Matt Furie and unpack the social and political contexts behind Pepe the Frog and its cooptation by the alt-right. They also reflect on the cinematic challenges in telling a story about the internet and discuss the larger implications of internet culture and political polarization in the United States. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39567]

Director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini join moderator Chelsea Kai Roesch from UC Santa Barbara to discuss their film "Feels Good Man." They talk about working with artist Matt Furie and unpack the social and political contexts behind Pepe the Frog and its cooptation by the alt-right. They also reflect on the cinematic challenges in telling a story about the internet and discuss the larger implications of internet culture and political polarization in the United States. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39567]

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier realizes that New Zealand doesn't have attics or basements, so sets out to discover why so many of America's 333 million homes do. David talks to Stephen Fox, an architectural historian and a lecturer at the Rice School of Architecture in Houston, who explains the practical reasons for these spaces, as well as why they've turned into habitable spaces. David then talks to filmmaker and architect Giorgio Angelini about what these spaces mean culturally to Americans, as paradoxically a place of safety and warmth but also of mystery and horror. The two of them discuss various formative experiences to be found in the attic, before David turns back to the egg episode, attempting to get closure with his best friend Rosabel following an incident where he cracked an egg over her head.

A new documentary, “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas,” traces a long history of of discriminatory housing policy that has systemically denied Black families from home ownership. We spoke to Giorgio Angelini, the documentary’s director. There’s more trade tension between the U.S. and China as the former is leaning on Beijing to honor commitments to purchase products from the U.S.

The documentary, "Owned: A Tale of Two Americas," tells the story of the racist housing policies enacted by the federal government in post-World War II America, and how those decisions set the country on a path to the inequitable and segregated neighborhoods that exist in many of our cities today. Emmy-award winning director Giorgio Angelini is with us to speak about the film and the state of housing inequity in the United States. "Owned: A Tale of Two Americas," debuts on PBS today, February 7, 2022. It will also be available to stream on the PBS Video App.

A new documentary, “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas,” traces a long history of of discriminatory housing policy that has systemically denied Black families from home ownership. We spoke to Giorgio Angelini, the documentary’s director. There’s more trade tension between the U.S. and China as the former is leaning on Beijing to honor commitments to purchase products from the U.S.

Feels Good Man filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini show us how a great meme can go bad — and how to take it back again.Rushkoff, Angelini, and Jones explore the evolution of Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog from stoner frog to alt-right meme. When did internet culture became real-world culture? How did a community of trolls who wanted to manipulate reality end up effecting physical space? When was the moment that fan fiction became mainstream?In his monologue, Rushkoff addresses the cycle of bad faith arguments amplified by Twitter that end up destroying real conversation — and many talented people’s credibility. “Once you cross over into the land of make-believe facts — however earnest you believe your intention is — it undermines not only your argument, but the whole social fabric. It undermines our entire collective quest as human beings to figure out what the heck is really going on here.” Rushkoff says. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Raquel takes Punk Rock 101 with THE DECLINE OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION and our guest, film producer, Giorgio Angelini. She sure doesnt like whats going on here – she is genuinely shocked. But is the overt offensiveness just schtick? The forced edginess of these ‘70s/'80s punk seems similar to 4chan trolls. Why did the director choose to present race the way she did? We get into the ethics of impartiality in documentary filmmaking. Raphael tries to explain to Raquel why punks hate hippies. And we cannot overstate how shook this film left Raquel. The Generation Splice is film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through and through, & her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky millennial punk rocker/former music journalist, & current film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a film to dissect & see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of film. Feel free to write to us! Give us some film suggestions at thegenerationsplice@gmail.com or @gensplicepod on Twitter. Raphael is on Twitter at @citycelluloid. You can find his film writing at cinefile.info and film-cred.com The show is produced by The Martinez Family & the show's theme song was written, performed, & produced by Raphael.

Feels Good Man filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini discuss how they told the story of Pepe The Frog from Boys Club to misappropriation by the far-right after the 2016 election, what it meant for Pepe the Frog to enter the U.S. Capitol building, and why we need to broaden the scope of our conversations around NFTs and digital art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An interview with designer, musician, and filmmaker Giorgio Angelini. After touring in bands for much of his 20s, Giorgio enrolled in the Masters of Architecture program at Rice University during the 2008 real estate collapse. It was during his time at Rice that the seeds for Giorgio’s directorial debut, OWNED: A Tale of Two Americas began to take shape, which led to him co-founding a film production company called Ready Fictions. He continues to seek out projects that can help expand our understanding of the perversity of American culture. Architectural, film, or otherwise. The interview was conducted by host Lindsay Chambers.

On this week's episode of the podcast, Ryan and Carson are joined by the duo behind FEELS GOOD MAN - Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini. Topics include the relationship between Arthur and Giorgio, the success of 'Feels Good Man', and artist Matt Furie's reaction to the film. FGM Logline: Artist Matt Furie, the creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.Recommended Viewing: 'Feels Good Man' (@feelsgoodmanfilm)

Perhaps you thought 2021 might bring some return to normalcy. So far we have the Capitol insurrection, GameStonk and Jewish Laser Beams. We need to talk.After a much-needed break, Roll On returns with my hype man Adam Skolnick, an activist and veteran journalist perhaps best known as David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me co-author. Adam has written about adventure sports, environmental issues and civil rights for outlets such as The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, BBC, and Men’s Health. He is the author of One Breath and is currently hard at work on a novel.We are also mixing up the format with two special guests, Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini, the filmmakers behind Feels Good Man (and RRP 576). Serving as our internet culture decoder ring, the lads join the show to help make sense of recent events insanity.Some of the many topics explored in today’s conversation include:the importance of taking a sabbatical;the Capitol insurrection & the impact on the GOP;how Reddit turned the stock market upside down;the future of stock market democratization;David Lynch’s absurd yet wonderfully soothing weather reports;Ultra-runner Jim Walmsley’s 100k American record; andHow Nepalese climbers reached the summit of K2 in the winter for the first time.In addition, we answer the following listener questions:How do I focus & contribute when I’m so consumed by current events?How do I deal with colossal failure and set myself up for success?How did overcoming substance abuse change your mindset on fitness & life?Thank you to Kevin from St. Louis, John from the Sierra Nevada, and Sarah from Phoenix for your questions. If you want your query discussed, drop it on our Facebook Page, or better yet leave a voicemail at (424) 235-4626.The visually inclined can watch our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.It’s good to be back!Peace + Plants,Listen, Watch & SubscribeApple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | Google PodcastsThanks to this week’s sponsors:Boll & Branch: The first honest and transparent bedding company that only uses sustainable and responsible methods of sourcing and manufacturing. Go to BollandBranch.com today for 15% offyour first set of sheets when you use promo code richroll at checkout.quip: Gum that’s good for you, fun to chew, and easy to share. Quip’s sugar-free cavity-fighting gum supports good oral health with a long-lasting minty flavor. Pair it with a quip Electric Toothbrush, Refillable Floss, and more great products. 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To learn more and pick up a pair, visit www.vivobarefoot.comSHOW NOTES:Connect With Adam: Website | Instagram | TwitterNew York Times: How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Timeby Adam SkolnickFeels Good Man: Website | Apple+ | AmazonRRP 576: Feels Good Man: Arthur Jones & Giorgio AngeliniPolitico: The Education of Josh HawleyThe Kansas City Star: What GOP primary? Josh Hawley focusing U.S. Senate bid ‘100 percent’ on McCaskillBusiness Insider: GOP Sen. Josh Hawley wrote a column in defense of militia members in the wake of Oklahoma City bombing when he was 15Business Insider: Elon Musk led a bizarre interview with Robinhood’s CEO, quizzing him about last week’s GameStop stock dramaDeadline: MGM Lands Rights To Ben Mezrich’s Book Proposal ‘The Antisocial Network’; Would Chronicle Recent Wall Street-GameStop ChaosDeadline: Netflix Finalizing GameStop Stock Movie Package; Mark Boal In Talks To Write, Noah Centineo Attached, Scott Galloway To ConsultNew York Times: The GameStop Reckoning Was a Long Time ComingNew York Times: The Misfits Shaking Wall StreetNew York Times: The Science of Reasoning With Unreasonable PeopleCNET: Reddit still wants to send AMC, GameStop stock to the moon. Here’s how and what’s nextNew York Magazine: An Elegant Revolution Followed by SlaughterThe Verge: David Lynch’s video weather reports from his bunker are surprisingly soothingI'm proud to announce my new book 'Voicing Change'. To learn more & pre-order now, visit, richroll.com/vcThere are a few simple ways you can support the show and the content we strive to craft and share every single weekSubscribe & Review: Please make sure to review, share comments and subscribe to the show on the various platforms (Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Spotify). This helps tremendously!Patronize Our Sponsors: Supporting the companies that support the show! For a complete list of all RRP sponsors and their respective vanity URLs and discount codes, click the ‘Sponsors’ tab in the ‘Shop’ menu.Spread The Word: Help grow our reach by sharing your enthusiasm for the podcast and/or your favorite episodes by posting about it on social media.Thank The Team: I do not do this alone. Send your love to Jason Camiolo for production, audio engineering and show notes; Margo Lubin and Blake Curtis for video, editing and graphics; portraits by Ali Rogers & Davy Greenberg; and theme music by Tyler Piatt. Trapper Piatt & Hari Mathis. 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In this episode, Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones, the filmmakers of the documentary "Feels Good Man," which won the Sundance 2020 Special Jury Prize, and Louis Tompros of WilmerHale, discuss artist Matt Furie, his character Pepe the Frog, Pepe's memeification and appropriation by the alt-right, and Furie's legal battle to save Pepe. They describe Furie's creation of the Pepe character, how Pepe became an internet meme, and why Pepe became a symbol of hate speech. They describe how Furie used copyright law to prevent the commercialization of Pepe by alt-right pundits, focusing on the legal strategy and how they explained their theory of the case to the court. Angelini is on Twitter at @giorgieangelini and Tompros is on Twitter at @LouisTompros.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a spark of creativity, cartoonist Matt Furie created an innocent, loving frog he named Pepe. What came next is so insane, it literally bent reality.Filmmakers Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini wanted to understand how this sweet and relatively obscure indie comic book character morphed into an infamous symbol of hate—and a meme that changed the world. The result is Feels Good Man—a filmmaking triumph and one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years.Premiering at last year’s Sundance, where it picked up the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker, it’s the surreal story of Pepe The Frog. How it migrated across the internet, evolving into an unwitting avatar of chaos and a lever for radicalization. It’s about its creator Matt Furie’s efforts to reclaim his creation. And Pepe’s slow transmogrification back into a hieroglyph of positivity.But beneath the surface, Feels Good Man is about artistic agency. It’s about the journey from passivity to participation. A sociological excavation of how culture spreads from mind to mind, it’s also an archeological dig into the indelible power of an idea. How a meme adopted by a regressive internet subculture spilled into the real world, shifted the political landscape, and ultimately tipped a presidential election.The film is an absolute must-see. I wanted to know more. So today Arthur and Giorgio take us behind the looking glass on Pepe’s Frankenstein-meets-Alice-In-Wonderland journey.This is a conversation about the complicated relationship between internet culture and the real world.It’s about the strange relationship between comic book artists, arch druids, data scientists, intellectual property lawyers, and alt-right mouthpieces.It’s about memetics—how memes drive cultural evolution in parallel with how genes influence human evolution. And, in this case, how one meme was perniciously coopted to democratize electoral engagement, enervating passive supporters into active participants.But more than anything, this is about the war between cynicism and hope.And why, to coin Matt Furie, you gotta go hardcore happy.The visually inclined can watch our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.I don’t understand why everyone isn’t talking about this movie and the ideas it presents. This conversation is my attempt to change that.Peace + Plants,Listen, Watch & SubscribeApple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | Google PodcastsThanks to this week’s sponsors:Daily Harvest: Daily Harvest makes it easy to eat more fruits and vegetables with thoughtfully sourced, chef-crafted foods that are ready in five minutes or less. Go to dailyharvest.com and enter promo code richroll to get $25 off your first box.ROKA: Cutting edge eyewear & apparel built for top performance. 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Exclusions apply, limited time only.SHOW NOTES:Feels Good Man: WebsiteFeels Good Man TrailerNew York Times: ‘Feels Good Man’ Review: The Evolution of a Poisonous FrogAV Club: The internet’s most infamous frog gets a documentary redemption in Feels Good ManVariety: ‘Feels Good Man’: Film ReviewFilmmaker Magazine: “You Can’t DM People on 4chan”: Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini on Pepe the Frog Documentary Feels Good ManSundance Film Festival: Meet the Artist: Arthur JonesHN: A Conversation With Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini (FEELS GOOD MAN)The Moveable Feast: Interview: Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini on Putting a Human Face on Pepe the Frog in “Feels Good Man”The Guardian: Feels Good Man: The disturbing story behind the rise of Pepe the FrogCollider: ‘Feels Good Man’ Review: We Should Probably Burn the Internet to the GroundI'm proud to announce my new book 'Voicing Change'. To learn more & pre-order now, visit, richroll.com/vcThere are a few simple ways you can support the show and the content we strive to craft and share every single weekSubscribe & Review: Please make sure to review, share comments and subscribe to the show on the various platforms (Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Spotify). This helps tremendously!Patronize Our Sponsors: Supporting the companies that support the show! For a complete list of all RRP sponsors and their respective vanity URLs and discount codes, click the ‘Sponsors’ tab in the ‘Shop’ menu.Spread The Word: Help grow our reach by sharing your enthusiasm for the podcast and/or your favorite episodes by posting about it on social media.Thank The Team: I do not do this alone. Send your love to Jason Camiolo for production, audio engineering and show notes; Margo Lubin and Blake Curtis for video, editing and graphics; portraits by Ali Rogers & Davy Greenberg; and theme music by Tyler Piatt. Trapper Piatt & Hari Mathis. 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Paco and George have been interviewing documentary directors for over five years! We play some interesting clips from these super fun and interesting talks.Ep 137 -Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini director and producer of Feels Good ManEp 4 - Jodi Wille director of The Source FamilyEp 160 - Jeff Feuerzeig director of The Devil and Daniel JohnstonEp 93 - Brent Hodge director of Freaks and GeeksEp 102 - Brett Morgen director of The Kid Stays In the Picture Listen to all our past director interviewsFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

Filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini join us to unveil the ugly and mind-bending truth behind "Feels Good Man", their award-winning documentary. In this urgent conversation, we discuss Matt Furie, the artist and creator behind cartoon character Pepe The Frog, the evolution from a meme into a hate symbol to a democracy icon, the impact of Internet consumption on art, woke culture and more!

The internet and its many connected sites and apps is a fraught place, filled with algorithms that manipulate the user beyond what she or he comes close to realizing. Both films we discuss this week, The Social Dilemma and Feels Good Man, look at the more sinister aspects of online culture. Returning guest host Jennifer Proctor joins us a for a review of the first, and then Bart and Chris interview the director, Arthur Jones, and producer, Giorgio Angelini, of the second. Afterwards, we all share a film much on our individual minds following the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the rushed confirmation hearings for her chosen successor, Amy Coney Barrett. These are troubling times, so listen in and listen up. Group Review Documentary: THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (Jeff Orlowski, 2020) Available on Netflix. Film Featured in Interview Portion: FEELS GOOD MAN (Arthur Jones, 2020) Available on VOD. Other Films Mentioned: The Abortion Diaries (Penny Lane, 2005) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen, 1972) Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof/Charlie Siskel, 2013) Hal (Amy Scott, 2018) Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (Michael Stabile, 2015) Trapped (Dawn Porter, 2016) Vessel (Diana Whitten, 2014) Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, 2018) Links to reviews by Christopher Llewellyn Reed: Film Festival Today review of The Social Dilemma Hammer to Nail review of Feels Good Man Timestamps: 00:42 – Intro 04:19 – Group Discussion of THE SOCIAL DILEMMA 18:47 – Bart and Chris interview Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini of FEELS GOOD MAN ­­42:19 – Doc Talk 50:02 – Closing and End Credits Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Transitional music by BELLS≥ (thanks to Christopher Ernst) Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed

It wasn't just a good time, it was a GREAT time with Matt Furie, Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini from the "Feels Good Man" documentary, which follows Matt's trials and tribulations as the creator of the infamous Pepe the Frog meme; and writer/director Carson Mell (Tarantula, Another Evil, Silicon Valley). Get tickets to a special online screening of "Feels Good Man" this weekend with live Q&As including Tim Heidecker moderating on Saturday 9/26 at feelsgoodman.watch. PLUS, if you're a Patreon member and you buy a ticket, you could win a copy of Matt Furie's new book on Mindviscosity on Fantagraphics. Details at patreon.com/officehourslive. Support the holy trinity, get an extra half hour of the show and more at patreon.com/officehourslive. Check out our merch, subscribe to the podcast and find everything else at officialofficehours.com.

In November 2016, a nasty election cycle had exposed a seismic cultural rift, and the country suddenly felt like a much different place. For underground cartoonist Matt Furie, that sensation was even more surreal. Furie’s comic creation Pepe the Frog, conceived more than a decade earlier as a laid-back humanoid amphibian, had unwittingly become a grotesque political pawn. FEELS GOOD MAN is a Frankenstein-meets-Alice in Wonderland journey of an artist battling to regain control of his creation, while confronting a disturbing cast of characters who have their own peculiar attachments to Pepe. Now, as Pepe continues to morph around the world – FEELS GOOD MAN offers a vivid, moving portrait of one man, one frog, and the very strange reality we’ve all found ourselves living in. Director Arthur Jones and Producer Giorgio Angelini stop by to talk about their mind-blowing journey into an internet / social media / 4Chan rabbit hole where a hippy-dippy cartoon character becomes an avatar and unfathomable messenger of hatred and bigoted propaganda. For news, updates and screenings go to: feelsgoodmanfilm.com To watch Feels Good Man go to: feelsgoodman.watch For more on Pepe the Frog creator mattfurie.com

Happy Friday! Alex gives an update on the future release schedule of the how and reflects on the tragic death of actor Chadwick Boseman, and then the Kelly Brothers talk with the writer and director of the new documentary "Feels Good Man", Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones! Rate and Subscribe!

How a stoner frog in an indie comic was engineered by 4chan to become the face of alt right trolling. We speak to the filmmakers behind 'Feels Good Man', a new documentary on Pepe the frog, the creation of artist Matt Furie. Find out about the wholesome man behind the original Pepe. Then hear an ex-Trump campaign guy talk about the "meme war". ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Go watch the movie: https://www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com/ Follow Giorgio: https://twitter.com/giorgieangelini Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Doom Chakra Tapes (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/), Pontus Berghe (https://www.mixcloud.com/ChapelOne/), Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com)

How did a laid-back, semi-stoned cartoon frog end up a symbol of the alt-right? The new documentary "Feels Good Man" traces the origins of the character Pepe the Frog, from the perspective of the artist who first drew him and was baffled by the hijacking of his beloved frog. We'll speak to director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini about this story of political appropriation.

We speak with ARTHUR JONES & GIORGIO ANGELINI, filmmakers of "FEELS GOOD MAN," which tells the story of comic artist Matt Furie and the wild journey of his character Pepe the Frog. Yet this set up is also a lens for telling an even broader and deeper story of the past two decades: one that spans intergenerational communication, magic and media, anti-authoritarian rebellion, and the volatility of signs. The documentary comes out August 28 to select audiences (and Sept. 4 everywhere). We nominate it Political Film of the Year. For more: https://www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com/ https://www.instagram.com/feelsgoodmanfilm/ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97akfYZv28I

From episode 137 of Sup Doc, my other podcast about documentaries.First-time director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini share the twisted tale of artist Matt Furie's most famous creation becoming a meme identified with the Alt Right. They chronicle Furie's attempt to reclaim Pepe the Frog for good and share the process of starting in comics and animation all the way to premiering at Sundance. Feels Good Man website. Jones debuted the film at Sundance and ended up winning the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award For Emerging Filmmaker. The film is on the festival circuit but if you have even a passing interest in online radicalization, intellectual property law, or comics culture, this is a story you will want to know.Follow Arthur on:Twitter: @futuresmellsFollow Giorgio on:Twitter: @giorgieangeliniInstagram: @giorgieangeliniFollow Sup Doc on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon

How did the innocuous indie comics character Pepe the Frog turn into a meme of the alt-right and join the Anti-Defamation League's list of hate symbols? Chilled out artist Matt Furie learns the hard way how a meme can run out of control and along the way we learn about the culture of 4chan and the evolution of trolling in Arthur Jones' debut feature documentary that was a cause celebre at Sundance 2020.George interviews director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini about their feature documentary film Feels Good Man. Jones details Furie's attempt to undo the wrongs done in his character's name, including a showdown with Alex Jones. First time director Jones debuted the film at Sundance and ended up winning the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award For Emerging Filmmaker. The film is on the festival circuit but if you have even a passing interest in online radicalization, intellectual property law, or comics culture, this is a story you will want to know.Follow Arthur on:Twitter: @futuresmellsFollow Giorgio on:Twitter: @giorgieangeliniInstagram: @giorgieangeliniFollow Sup Doc on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon

In this segment of The Sundance Reel , Director Arthur Jones and Producer Giorgio Angelini talk about the origin of Pepe the Frog and their film Feels Good Man .

You’ve likely heard of redlining - the practice of systematizing discrimination based on where you live. You’ve probably even heard us talk about the ways its legacy continues to impact the upward mobility of communities of color. But do you know what happened next? In the wake of urban uprisings in the late 1960s, politicians pushed to end redlining, to lift people up out of poverty and improve their lives by making homeownership attainable. But that’s not what happened. Instead, bad policy and the private market worked together to create a machine that churned out new ways to exploit black homeowners. It’s what Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor describes as predatory inclusion in her new book, “Race for Profit”. In it, she describes the ways in which policy, race, and institutional forces came together to reinscribe segregation. Come see Chris Hayes in Los Angeles October 21st with special guests Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad! Get tickets here. RELATED READING: Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe YOUT MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Thick Descriptions with Tressie McMillan Cottom Our Real Estate Obsession with Giorgio Angelini

When the U.S. government designed postwar housing policy and subsidized massive developments and suburbs, it created a strong middle class. The American dream became synonymous with homeownership. But the U.S. government deliberately left out Black Americans, systematizing racist ideals into U.S. housing policy that has left too many people behind. Giorgio Angelini, director of the film Owned: A Tale of Two Americas, explores these themes and how the commodification of housing has distorted communities and the American ideals of opportunity and integration. Texas Housers sat down for an interview with Angelini after his film screening in Austin, Texas. Check out Owned here. Transcript of Episode 16

Giorgio Angelini didn’t exactly pick the most fortuitous time to start architecture school. He enrolled in Rice University’s architecture program in 2008, just as the U.S. economy was plunging into recession and new construction screeching to a halt. But this led to its own sort of opportunity—a chance to engage with some serious questions about architecture’s role in bringing about the housing crisis, and, perhaps, in bringing about a positive response to it. For a research project, Angelini visited aborted suburban subdivisions in California’s Inland Empire—the kind where one home stands adrift in a sea of dirt, weeds, and crumbling streets to nowhere. His “What the heck is going on?” moment upon viewing these sites sent him down a path of discovery that culminated in making a documentary film, Owned: A Tale of Two Americas. Owned is an exploration of how homeownership has been commoditized and marketed to Americans—but not all Americans. Through powerful interviews and archival footage, Angelini chronicles the creation of two starkly divergent Americas. In one, homeownership became the American dream, the primary vehicle by which millions of families accumulated wealth and passed it on to the next generation—but mounting debt and economic instability now threaten to unravel this dream. In the other America, racist laws and practices shut a generation of mostly African-Americans out of the opportunity to buy into booming postwar suburbs—and many of their descendants still live in hyper-segregated, disinvested neighborhoods where generational wealth is only a pipe dream. A home may be deeply personal, and the most expensive purchase nearly all of us will ever make—so you’d think a lot of thought would go into its production, Angelini says. But a hallmark of the suburban era has been the transformation of housing into a commodity. Something about watching orange groves on the fringes of Southern California uprooted for subdivisions makes it as plain as can be: housing is the new cash crop in these places. Owned heavily features Strong Towns and our founder, Charles Marohn. We’ve been among the foremost critics of the “cash crop” approach to homes and homeownership, and we’re honored to have our perspective spotlighted in this powerful film. In today’s Strong Towns Podcast, Charles Marohn sits down with Giorgio Angelini to talk about Owned from its initial conception to final form, and where Angelini thinks homeownership in the U.S. needs to go if we’re to reckon with the monster we’ve created. (Hint: Three letters–CLT—are part of his answer.) We also have a big announcement to make. We’ll be showing Owned at our recently announced regional gathering in Southern California, which will be held in Santa Ana, CA on December 5th, 2019. Giorgio himself will be there. People profiled in the film might be there. But most importantly, Chuck is treating everybody to popcorn. You heard it here first. To sign up for more info on the Santa Ana gathering as it becomes available, click here. And to hear more from Giorgio Angelini and Chuck Marohn, check out this week’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.

Hey my people! The 2019 DC Black Film Festival is around the corner. It takes place August 15th-17th at the Miracle Theatre and The Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. I’m going to be bringing you interviews with officially selected filmmakers throughout the next few weeks on air and through the podcast. Check out www.dcbff.org for information on our schedule, film line up and how you can get tickets to be in the building. This week on the show I have director Jodi Gomes of “One Child Left Behind: The Untold Atlanta Cheating Scandal”, director Giorgio Angelini of “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas” and director Victor O’Frank of the short film “Dre”. Check out “One Child Left Behind” here: https://onechildleftbehindmovie.com/ Check out “Owned” here: http://www.ownedfilm.com/ Find “Dre” and Victor here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9461666/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1 Picture Lock Links: Get my new book “Army of One: PR & Marketing For The Indie Filmmaker”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/057844139X Take my PR For The Indie Filmmaker online course here: https://indiefilmpr.thinkific.com/ Get a partner as passionate as you in your film or film event's publicity: www.picturelockpr.com Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kevin-sampsons-picture-lock/id639359584?mt=2 Be sure to visit www.picturelockshow.com for everything Picture Lock! Please give us a review on whatever platform you listen to this podcast on. Thanks so much for your continued support. Drop a line a picturelockshow@gmail.com to say hi and let us know what you think of the show. FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/picturelockshow SNAPCHAT: https://www.snapchat.com/add/picturelockshow YouTube CHANNEL:http://www.youtube.com/picturelockshowTWITTER:https://twitter.com/picturelockshowINSTAGRAM:http://instagram.com/picturelockshowPINTEREST:http://pinterest.com/picturelockshow

Why do you live where you live? Not just the state or the city but the block you walk down and the door you walk through every day. Having a space to call home is packaged as part of the ‘American Dream’ and it has become a full on real estate obsession. If you’re like Chris Hayes, you might find yourself binge watching HGTV or scanning house listings in cities you have no plans of living in. But our ability to partake in that dream is far from equal thanks to housing policies that have disenfranchised generations. Despite these forces directly ruling over where we are able to live, talking about housing policy can make the eyes glaze over. Luckily, Giorgio Angelini managed to weave together the intricate history of housing discrimination from New Jersey to California in his visually stunning new documentary, “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas”.

Presenting The sixth God Is In The TV Zine podcast. www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk Featuring artists that have featured on our pages over the past few months, alongside some interesting, innovative tracks you may never have heard before. TRACKLIST: 1. Bix Sixes - The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands To Do “I’m devoted to being hopeless but you barely noticed/You hands are like knives and your eyes are like locusts” twitches Big Sixes’ singer over a frenetic tropical beat, that bursts forth into an addictive chorus. It brings to mind everyone from Vampire Weekend to the early work of the Libertines whilst retaining a introspective edge of authenticity. This FREE DOWNLOAD ‘The Devi Makes Work For Idle Tongues’(below) is a cracking introduction to this mysterious Bedfordshire three piece. Read more:http://s.tt/12S7W 2. The Love Language - Pedals Following recent shows supporting Arcade Fire in the US, The Love The Language just played their debut European shows. The one taster they’ve allowed to seap out to the public is the free download ‘Pedals’ below, a sweepingly tune that bares swooning choral hallmarks are brave and tender. Swelling through delicately arranged orchestration and collapsing into gloriously melodic cresendos not too dissimilar to the the early work of Arcade Fire or The Decemberists! Read more: http://s.tt/12QZT 3. And And And - Buy You And And And makes driving, gritty, energetic indie rock songs infused with a classic DIY punk ethos and a penchant for experimental instrumentation. These recordings embody the emotional mess that is an And And And live show. http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/and-and-and-buy-you 4. Kindest Lines - Destructive Paths To Live Happily Initially it appears obvious Louisiana’s Kindest Lines delicious reverb heavy lo-fi sound is inhabited with the ghosts of early Joy Division and The Cure. But somewhere on their debut long player Covered in Dust they settle on a feminine draped sound that’s somewhat more individual. Somehow reassembling the dark post punk era and flecks it with hints at disco sound of the next decade. Read More: http://s.tt/12RRP 5. Brontide - Matador Sprawlingly magnificent post rock instrumentalists from Brighton Brontide released their debut album ‘Sans Souci’ on the 30th of May on Holy Roar Records. To celebrate they are gave away the track ‘Matador.’ Read More: http://s.tt/13cM5 6. Knesset - Steady Hands KNESSET are a shoegaze American band, based in and between Phoenix and Los Angeles. Producing shattering waves of cinematic walls of noise, and impressively lingering, epic lyrical narratives that reach inside your ribcage and grab you by the heart…. Read More: http://s.tt/12QlZ 7. An Axe - Love, My Evil One minute and twenty six seconds. I can barely make a cup of tea in that time. That in that space of time Bristolian dramatists An Axehave produced a mini melodrama is testament to the quality of their work. “Love, My Evil” – and its instrumental counterpart “Let Law Be Upheld” – is a stellar single. Read More: http://s.tt/12UxS 8. Little Arrow - Aeroplane West Wales outfit Little Arrow are that rare thing, a genuinely heartwarming group informed by an ancient folk tradition but not consumed by it. An act seemingly completely oblivious to the prevailing trends, making music for the sake of expression and in an attempt to affect the listener.Their fine album ‘Music, Masks & Poems’released earlier this year on the quality Cardiff inprint Bubblewrap is the product of a genuinely communal effort(made up of friends and family members, including Margret Hughes his mother who provides a comforting female tone in the ether throughout). Read More: http://s.tt/130w5 9. Plant Plants - Hands That Sleep New duo, Plant Plants release their new self titled debut EP on the 20th of June. It’s produced by Jas Shaw(one half of SMD’s production team) and released on This Is Music new imprint, Less Music. It’s four tracks exhibit their skillful creativity for blending glorious harmonies with electronic rhythms and organic hip hop samples. Read More: http://s.tt/12RVy 10. papercranes - Sea Red Anchored by lead singer and songwriter, Rain Phoenix, and flanked by her revolving cast of collaborators, papercranes, released their second album in the UK on the 11th July via Manimal Vinyl(Bat For Lashes, Warpaint, Sister Crayon). Download the seething rhythms and raw vocal power of ‘Sea Red’ below, it’s awesome! Read More: http://s.tt/12RxK 11. AutoKratz - A -Train autoKratz have second album SELF HELP FOR BEGINNERS is an innovative journey through dark electronic pop, hands-in-the-air garage techno and carefully nurtured moments of beauty featuring guests Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order), Andrew Innes (Primal Scream) and Jagz Kooner. Download the album track ‘A-Train’ below. Read More: http://s.tt/12Txi 12. Super Man Revenge Squad - The Summer We Finally Cut Our Hair Ben Parker(Superman revenge Squad,Nosferatu D2 ) has sent us a track-by-track guide through their cult classic album ‘We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise’ (which was later released on Audio antihero). It was loosely written as an anniversary to their formation and split(both in June). Enjoy: Read More http://s.tt/12V49 13. Andy Petr - Drinking Milk From His Hands Electronic boy genius Andy Petr, is a 19-year old bedroom producer. Prolific beyond his years, Milwaukee native Andy Petr recently signed with Brooklyn-based Mixpak records and released his debut album Rapper Turned Singer EP on May 10th. Andy’s profuse output of intricate chops doesn’t stop there. He is also delivering a spate of free EPs which APD004 being the first. The trilogy of EPs will feature original material as well as heavy reworkings of some of his favorite rap songs. Sample one of his innovative tracks below. Read More: http://s.tt/12UQ9 14. Oax - Love And Crashing After four years of heavy touring schedules with Bishop Allen and The Rosebuds, it was time to leave New York and head back South to his home of Houston, TX. Not the hippest city in the country, but that was sort of the point. What started as a open-ended hiatus from music and a venture into graduate school in architecture at Rice University, it didn’t take too long before Giorgio Angelini started writing music again. Oh, and there was a break-up, of course. What record worth it’s weight in wax hasn’t been seeded by a good ol’ fashioned heart ripping? Distance is, indeed, a killer.Oax is the result. The name coming from the seemingly endless canopy of live oak trees that covers Houston like a carpet. Not native to Houston, the trees were planted by early settlers as a way to provide shelter from the punishing Texas sun. And lucky enough, they managed to thrive like weeds in the swampy bayou soup of Houston soil. Read More: http://s.tt/12XSw 15. Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Master Of Art As some of the finest musicians Brooklyn has to offer, it’s hard to believe Laura Stevenson & The Canshaven’t achieved the epic fame their music demands. They can jump from subtle folk, to bluegrass, to rock, to punk and back again within the bat of an eyelid. Stevenson can manipulate her voice to sound kitsch and rabid at any one time; she can put out stars and light them back up again. I’d be unsurprised if she spends most of her time walking on her hands. One minute you’re listening to a leftfield take on acoustic music; the next you’re basked in a fervour that borders shouty, punchy hysteria. And it always works; there are never any flaws. Read More: http://s.tt/12RGS 16. Jonnie Common - Hand- Hand Red Deer Club present their first album on vinyl “Master Of None’ from Glasgwegian Jonnie Common it gets a release on the 1st of August. Jonnie previously worked under the monniker Tiny Steps releasing records through the Fence Collective. A summerous collection of wondrously understated pop oddities, coming in at just over thirty minutes, at moments it understated charm reminds one of the quieter more modest moments of the National’s work.At others his twinkling instrumentals and quick fire, playful vocal ticks are wonderfully redolant of The Beta Band. Stream the entire album below. Read More: http://s.tt/12RGc 17. Inca Gold - Dark Moves After a well received debut EP, Inca Gold I in February, London four piece Inca Gold released the second in a triptych for 2011, Inca Gold II on 8th June on Color and Vision Records. Ethereal vocals? Check? Keyboard bleeps? Swirling Psychedelia? Yep Cinematic atmosphere!? Yes sirrreee…. The equation for Inca Gold‘s wide screen soundscapes could appear in a book about ‘how to surf the zeitgeist in 2011′s all too cluttered music scene.’ But wait their formula doesn’t contain pretension of MGMT, the blandness of the xx, or the sheer annoyance of The Naked or the Famous! Inca’s modest lilting, dreamy refrains ghost their way into your brain like half remembered dreams of the past. Read More: http://s.tt/12Qv4 18. Grant K Fennell -Three O'Clock Starting out on the live circuit aged just 13, Grant K. Fennell has meticulously climbed his way up the musical ladder, fusing with psych, ska, garage and folk troupes along his way. This isn’t because Fennell doesn’t want to shackle himself down to the restrictions of a singular genre – it is simply because he can’t. With tastes and influences as extensive as his (Flaming Lips, Nick Drake, Mastodon, Frank Zappa, Animal Collective, Van Morrison, Coheed and Cambria, Kate Bush, Queens of the Stone Age), Grant’s music is a sedimentary of sounds, with layers of prog, folk rock, hardcore, desert rock, country, even blaxploitation, forming the musical force that he is. Read More: http://s.tt/12Q6c Godisinthepod6 by godisinthetvzine.co.uk Godisinthepodsix by Godisinthepod on Mixcloud All content syndicated from http://wwwg.odisinthetvzine.co.uk