PASTAFARIAN
Filmmaker Mike Arthur’s new film “I, Pastafari” explores the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and its “millions” of adherents. Here, he writes about this wild new religion.
Mike Arthur holds a business degree from a prestigious public university which sits and collects dust in his mom’s basement. He is very much an accidental filmmaker. In 2011, while working in a cubicle somewhere in Portland, Oregon, Mike took a filmmaking night class to balance out the monotony of corporate retail. The documentary that resulted went from a YouTube short to a full-length feature that eventually aired on American national TV in 2013. The experience ruined his cubicle aspirations.