Feels Good Man

[Available Jan. 28 via streaming on MUBI.] Arthur Jones' award-winning, fascinating, colorful, entertaining, thought-provoking, 94-minute, 2020 documentary that delves into talented cartoonist Matt Furie's and his endearing creation of the green Pepe the Frog that initially became a popular Internet meme sensation only to unexpectedly becoming a symbol of hate, racism, and bigotry as his copyright is infringed upon countless of times by the alt-right and consists of interview snippets with artist and partner Aiyana Udesen, Teenage Clothing founder Rachel Finley, cartoonist Johnny Ryan, artist and curator Hampton Boyer, artist and Matt Furie collector Kevin Sukho Lee, thrift store coworker Clint Smith, housemate Chris Sullivan, crypto currency trader Peter Kell, computer scientist Jeremy Blackburn, middle school principal Eric Hauser and author of The Adventure of Pepe and Pede, copyright lawyers Louis Tompros and Stephanie Lin, artist Skinner, InfoWars attorneys Robert Bannes and Marc Randazza, Center on Extremism Anti-Defamation League director Oren Segal, anonymous 4channer contributors "Pizza" and "Mills," McSweeney editor and art director Brian McMullen, psychologist/journalist Dr. Aleks Krotoski and "Untangling the Web" author, Look Ahead America executive director Matt Braynard, occultist/scholar John Michael Greer and Encyclopedia of Natural Magic author, he Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer, artists and writers Lisa Hanawalt and Dale Beran, comedian and TV writer Emily Heller, psychologist/memetist Dr. Susan Blakmoore and The Meme Machine author, and 4chan.org and TED Talk founder Christopher Pole.
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