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Cosmic book, 'Sun of gOd', You tube video

2009-10-14T21:46:00Z

Hi Cosmics,

I hope you've been moving in ever cosmically expansive dimensions in the eons since I've posted! I recently moved back to my homeland of England after many moons of yearning and couldn't be happier!

I am promoting the fantastic new book 'Sun of gOd' by Gregory Sams. I am delighted to represent such a great book and human being.

Watch the 2 min. video I just put up and not only see what taht book is about, but hear the Fireman's 'Sun is Shining' (Paul Mc Cartney).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSDeugK9xLE

Leave a comment, if you so feel to!

or on author's website: http://www.sunofgod.net

I want to hear about how people are doing in their endeavors and also how they are using the film or video mediums in artistic ways.

Thanks!

Bella

The Sun is

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK

Sun of gOd, the controversial, taboo-busting new book by Gregory Sams, re-acquaints us with our magnificent local star. Watch the 2 min.video and share with anyone who needs a little Sunshine in their life!

" Wonderful, clear-headed, thought-provoking material....Gregory Sams' new book, and new way of seeing, will have a part to play in the global change of consciousness that is now, as never before, so desperately needed. "

--Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, Supernatural, Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

"As one who had always been convinced that nature is both intelligent and purposeful, I was both excited and moved by this remarkable book."

--Colin Wilson, The Outsider

"Gregory Sams asserts that the Sun is endowed with intelligence and consciousness. In the brilliantly articulated chapters of this remarkable book, he also provides a provocative paradigm for understanding the self-organizing capacities of the entire Universe."

--Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-editor, Varieties of Anomalous Experience

Sun of gOd is wise, persuasively reasoned, and thoughtfully written-not light reading, but rich, provocative, and worth savoring, like a fine meal. By the time we finish, Sams has served up a feast --- making great contributions to the global shift in consciousness."

--Excerpt of review in the New Consciousness Review

Published by Red Wheel/Weiser Books, San Francisco, CA 94107
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And Orpheus, longtime cosmonaut in this group, found some wacky solar deity vidz...

www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch

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Has anyone seen 'Sol,' by John Weiley

2009-07-04T23:28:49Z

I would love to see this film! Anyone ever seen it? It was released on IMAX. At present I'm promoting the book 'SUn of gOd' by Gregory Sams and am delving into all solar things...fascinating and enlivening subject that is important to all life as we know it in our galaxy!

We intend to get a doc. made based upon the book too. John Weiley would be great choice to direct it. The Youtube video promotion we just posted can be seen here: http://www.sunofgod.net

We are of stardust composed.

Warm up to old Sol in latest Imax film

By CHARLES WARD
SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER

The sun.

We gawk at the colors it paints on hillsides at sunrise. We soak in its warmth in the summer months. At the height of winter's seasonal affective disorder, we curse its absence.

MOVIE REVIEW

SOLARMAX
DIRECTOR: John Weiley

RUNNING TIME: 40 minutes

RATING: Not rated

By the end of "Solarmax," the new Imax film opening Tuesday at the Pacific Science Center, awe and terror may trump all the other emotions we feel about the star at the center of our solar system.

Seen in stunning pictures from outer space, the pulsing, red-orange gaseous sphere is utterly mesmerizing on the giant screen. Yet, the narrator tells us, the sun's threat to Earth is equally frightening.

The title for John Weiley's sumptuous film is shorthand for solar maximum, when some of the sun's most violent storms occur.

Every 11 years or so, the sun switches poles, or polarity. That jolt increases the torrents of energy the sun sends toward Earth. Those electromagnetic onslaughts have fried electric transformers, destroyed spy satellites, killed cellular phone service -- and made it hard for pigeons to fly. (They use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate.)

"Solarmax" arrives just as the sun is at the climax of the current solar cycle. The next several months could bring the biggest threat yet to all the gizmos man has invented.

One is SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory that provided many of the breathtaking pictures in "Solarmax." Orbiting the sun nearly a million miles closer than Earth, it feeds scientists endless streams of data about the star. Producers of "Solarmax" got one month's worth.

Yet, "Solarmax" can deflate our smugness about such scientific achievements. Weiley's crews take us to Ireland and Peru, where ancient civilizations mastered the sun's cycle of birth and death and built monuments to capture the exact moment of the winter solstice.

Too, the film's quick-hit historical survey notes how astronomers in ancient Babylon made observations so accurate that modern-day scientists still check computer programs against them.

But ever since the Irish created their shrine 5,300 years ago, people have been deeply ambivalent about the sun. Knowing its power but not being able to explain it, they have made it the center of religions and political systems. The Japanese emperor still prays to the goddess of the sun at the winter and summer solstices.

"Solarmax" is not elegant. It can soar lyrically and move with staccato briskness. Occasionally, it can nearly stall, as it does when Weiley tries to dramatize how scientists, evidently not consulting those Babylonians, accidentally turned SOHO off and then spent months guessing how to turn it back on.

Still, on the giant screen, the images of sunspots, flares hurtling out of the corona and the bubbling surface infect the mind. Helping that is the orchestral and choral music by Australian Nigel Westlake (which NBC used during its Summer Olympics telecasts).

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Conscious Animation in theaters May 1st?

2009-04-15T18:38:17Z

Is the new animation Battle For Terra going to be heartfelt? Well, I know the trailer is action-packed, but I'm thinking that they just didn't want to promote the whole 'peace and harmony' theme, because that doesn't sell.

The film won the "Crystal Heart Vision" award for 'excellence in film' making at the Heartland Film festival which honors films that empower the human journey and express hope, respect and positive values of life. Because of this, I'm thinking there is way more to it than just awesome animation and an all-star cast. *fingers crossed*

I hear it's not preachy, but has themes of green living, social tolerance, respecting others and the earth, living in peace and harmony, etc.

Plus, it's going to be in 3D, so I think that's fun.

Here's the trailer -- http://www.BattleForTerra.com

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Camera Person Needed Next Sat March 21st in Los Angeles

2009-03-15T05:06:56Z

Hey guys. We're a team of media professionals volunteering to broadcast content from this media summit. It will air on Free Speech TV and possibly Link TV as well. The summit covers localisim in media..net neutrality, and other topics pertaining to media ownership and democracy. It's more political than spiritual, but the question of who owns our media and especially who owns our news outlets directly relates to the consciousness of our entire country. If interested please contact me directly.

It's a 2-camera Sony HD shoot being edited by a career editor and we will have a Roving Reporter doing on the fly interviews with the speakers and attendees. Without our team this content would basically expire on the day of the event - so this is a great way to volunteer and know you are contributing a lot with just one day. Thanks!

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4847721

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Alternative films

2009-02-02T22:45:53Z

I've long been a fan of artistic films that you would never (hardly ever) find at your local artfilm house, let alone a local cineplex. Rather, the films I've been collecting over the years are the kinds that you might have better luck finding exhibited at an art gallery somewhere off the beaten path. Occasionally, you'd find em in a bigger exhibit, perhaps, at a museum of modern art, or some such.. but I always find them to be intriguing and compelling.. really testing the limits of the film medium (and audience attention) and exploring the idea of film, itself, as an art form..

Here -- in no particular order-- are a few names of artists and films which have, for better or worse, found their way into my collection (one of these days, I hope to screen them -- perhaps projected on a warehouse wall, where people can stare in quixotic wonder..)

Films (Artists)
Decasia (Bill Morrison)
Surfacing the Thames (David Rimmer)
Zoetrope (Charlie Deaux)
Dance of Darkness (Japanese Butoh - Edin Velez)
Bodysong (Simon Pummell)
Slomo Video (multiple filmmakers: http://greylodge.org/gpc/wp-mobile.php?p=674&more=1 )
The Last Clean Shirt (Leslie Alfred)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)

I've also accumulated some assorted works by Stan Brakhage, Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Terry Fox, Walerian Borowczyk, Mauricio Kagal, George Landow, Owen Land, and Jack Goldstein, and some of the early films by David Lynch, Hal Hartley, Stanley Kubrick, & Maya Deren...

There are others, but too many to list here... Does anyone have any interest in this type of thing, in terms of maybe swapping suggestions as to what can be done with this kind of obsessive obscure film collecting behavior I seem to have contracted.. perhaps a support group or a screening of some kind?

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Jacob's Ladder..

2008-12-30T19:12:13Z

Just been moved.. again.. by a re-screening of the 1990 thriller, Jacob's Ladder -- directed by Adrian Lynne, starring Tim Robbins.

A film depicting levels of consciousness, hallucinations at the moment of death.. here's an interesting article about it entitled The Long Road Out of Hell: http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=560

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Eye Spy

2008-12-24T00:12:08Z

Not so much of a film suggestion, per se -- but an interesting "development" in filmmaking, so to speak..

Or perhaps just another gimmick. (I'd hate to be the editor!)

>>>>>>
Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket

Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.

The eye he's considering replacing is not a working one -- it's a prosthetic eye he's worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around.

"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" he asks.

More here: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/eye-spy-filmmak.html

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Poetry as oblique narrative; Rimbaud example

2008-11-27T06:09:57Z

Over the years, I have created a cluster of short VideoPoems using text from my favorite poets (Neruda, Rimbaud, Plath, Tzara, Rilke & others) as oblique narratives. These poems are not read like poems per se or or are they performed as they do in Poetry Slams. They are instead spoken as as narratives, as in telling a story, to moving images invoked by the spirits dwelling in the words themselves. I have posted one of these VideoPoems on YouTube to demonstrate what I mean.

This one is 4 minutes long; the text ("Mouvement") is by Arthur Rimbaud (Nick Walker and Deanna Anderson, dancers; videography and spoken words by myself; singing and music by Sylvi Alli).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IHctIVfCs

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Shortbus response

2008-11-27T04:00:42Z

Shortbus Response
(for JCM)

So poignant, so sweet,
fragile & human
We yearn to love
to be real in recursive
delight
Pushing, pulling, exploding
tears & laughter
physical, immediate,
spontaneous
emerging from buried shadows
So simple, so hard, so basic
vulnerability
easier to grow from love
than loneliness
Does peace begin here?
Where we dare lower jealous arms
to embrace in full emotion?

(c) May 25, 2008 Laurie Corzett/libramoon

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Yeah to the light!

2008-11-27T03:04:55Z

Yeah to the new world dancing towards us! Now all of us who are light workers have to keep Barack Obama safe by surrounding him with white light. To joy!
Dancing

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"Bloodline" Movie Opening May 2008

2008-06-06T07:48:49Z

A new movie "Bloodline" about the mystery surrounding the Priory of Sion and the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is being released this May.

The movie traces the film makers' "raw, personal journey" to find evidence to support the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child that carried the royal bloodline. For interviews, to view the trailer and get more information on screenings, visit: www.bloodline-themovie.com

The upcoming movie screening for the film "Bloodline" in Los Angeles is on May 16th at the Leammle 5 Theatre on Sunset Blvd. For screenings in your area, go to the website.

I uploaded the poster for the film to the tribe.

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Top 10 visionary films you have seen

2008-05-17T21:07:34Z

(in no particular order)

THE ROE'S ROOM by Lech Majewski

THE MIRROR by Andrei Tarkovsky

UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD by Wim Wenders

THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER by Werner Herzog

THE ELEMENT OF CRIME by Lars Von Trier

EL TOPO by Alejandro Jodorowsky

BLADE RUNNER (director's cut) by Ridley Scott

APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX by Francis Ford Coppola

AMORES PERROS by Alejandro G. Inarritu

BLUE VELVET by David Lynch

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Two SF screenings of my new film, "The Invisible Forest"

2008-05-14T02:50:42Z

The film I have been working on all throughout 2007, "THE INVISIBLE FOREST", will have two premiere screenings in the Bay Area over the next two weeks (see info below). This film was made without a script though I borrowed text from William Shakespeare ("The Tempest" and "Romeo & Juiiet") and French Surrealist Antonin Artaud; almost all the actual dialogue was improvised. I'll be at both screenings to field questions and maybe add a few more of my own.

San Francisco premiere
Friday March 14th, 8pm
Artist Television Access
992 Valencia (& 21st St), San Francisco
Admission: $6. Filmmaker in person.
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=2799

Berkeley premiere
Friday March 21st, 8pm
Grace North Sanctuary
2138 Cedar (& Walnut) north Berkeley
Admission: $10. Filmmaker in person.

The Trailer
http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/IFFV2.html

SYNOPSIS
A theatre troupe camps out in a forest to perform their director's vision of Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods and spirits. During their forest experiment Alex, the director, is haunted by disturbing dreams where Artaud appears and mocks his theatrical ambitions. When these strange nightmares persist, Alex stops sleeping in an attempt to regain control over his mind. Sleep-deprived and with his sanity pushed to its limits, he seeks help from a Psychotherapist who suggests hypnosis as a means to discover the source of his problems. What follows is a journey through the internal landscape of Alex's subconscious memories and dreams, a sojourn that leads us to a place beyond belief, beyond words, and beyond the mind itself.

"The Invisible Forest" Movie site
http://www.verticalpool.com/if.html

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Pangea Day

2008-05-14T02:26:15Z

my tribute:

Pangea

My country is Peace
People of Peace
are my compatriots
Warriors of Peace
move human energy,
resources, time, minds
with weapons of art
active compassion
respect for the dignity of each and all
Words of Peace
speak beyond structured language
sharing profoundly
in joy
graceful dancing
to music of each dawn
enlivening Peace

May 10, 2008 libramoon

http://www.pangeaday.org/
The Pangea Day Mission & Purpose
Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

The Pangea Day Event
Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person's eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

What Will Happen After Pangea Day
People inspired by Pangea Day will have the opportunity to participate in community-building activities around the world. Through the live program, the Pangea Day web site, and self-organized local events, everyday people will be connected with extraordinary activists and organizations.

Many of the films and performances seen on Pangea Day will be made available on the Web and via mobile phone, alongside open forums for discussion and ideas for how to take social action.

A Pangea Day documentary will be created to catalyze future activities, and dozens of talented filmmakers will make strides in their careers.

History
In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish. Watch Jehane Noujaim’s 2006 acceptance speech now.

http://www.pangeaday.org/pangeadayFilms.php

http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=101

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the harmony channel

2008-05-09T07:36:34Z

http://www.harmonychannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=14

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"Intelligent use of Water" short film competition call to filmmakers

2008-04-30T05:23:37Z

Hey Cosmonauticians!

This is a great topic! Water is precious....primordial, irreplaceable....do your magic! I think I'm going to give it a try!

Bella

P.S. It even has a not too shabby cash prize (9 grand)

Go to: www.IUOWFILM.com

Second Annual Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition Invites All Filmmakers to Submit Short Films Showcasing Responsible Water Use

Rain Bird’s Environmentally Focused Film Competition Rolls Out The Green Carpet For Short Films That Explore Methods And Ideas To Better Manage And Utilize Earth’s Most Precious Resource

AZUSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rain Bird, the leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services for lawns, gardens, agriculture, golf courses, sports arenas, and commercial developments is giving amateur and experienced filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their talents and use the power of film to bring about a greater awareness of the need for responsible water use with the 2nd annual Intelligent Use of Water™ Film Competition. Now open for submissions, The 2008 Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition is accepting all narrative, documentary, animated, experimental and/or student-made short films (1-10 minutes in actual or excerpted run time) that explore methods and ideas to responsibly manage and utilize earth’s most precious resource.

Filmmakers who submit their short films via the competition website www.IUOWFILM.com, will have their films reviewed by a competition judging panel made up of film and water management experts. Finalists will be selected and invited to a special screening event on October 11, 2008 in Los Angeles. Shalini Kantayya, director of the 2007 Audience Choice Award Winner winner, “A Drop of Life,” will serve as master of ceremonies.

Following the screening at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, winners will be announced immediately and cash prizes of $6,000 for the Jury Award and $3,000 for the Audience Choice Award will be awarded.

“It has been proven time and again that film is an extremely powerful medium that is capable of inspiring global change. In sponsoring the 2008 Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition, we aim to encourage discussion on ways to manage and efficiently utilize the Earth’s most precious resource,” said Dave Johnson, Rain Bird’s Corporate Marketing Director. “We are excited to once again be able to provide a forum that enables filmmakers of all sorts to actively raise awareness of this important issue.”

All entries must be submitted electronically as a .mov, .wmv or .mpg file no later than 11:59 PM (PDT) on September 1, 2008 for consideration. Visit www.IUOWFILM.com for more information on the competition and entry requirements.

In addition to The Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition, Rain Bird devotes significant resources to its Intelligent Use of Water public education initiatives, which include: The Intelligent Use of Water Award; bi-annual Intelligent Use of Water Summits; a series of white papers; public service announcements; membership on the Alliance for Water Efficiency and the steering committee advising the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its WaterSense product labeling program; partnerships with non-profit organizations; development and support of elementary and middle school curriculums; and participation in the Tournament of Roses Parade®, an annual worldwide stage to communicate the need for water conservation.

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Still Life

2008-03-31T04:03:12Z

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/still_life.jsp

A spooky short film about an over-caffeinated driver who finds himself in an alternate reality after a body crashes through his windshield.

Directed by John Knautz and starring Trevor Matthews. 9 minutes, 3 seconds long.

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LIVE12pm-2pm gmt on WWW.GLASTONBURYRADIO.NET talking to the Director 'Time of the Sixth Sun.' a film about 2012 email in at studio2@glastonburyradio.net or call +44(0)1458831171 www.timeofthesixthsun.

2008-02-04T10:17:41Z

LIVE12pm-2pm gmt on WWW.GLASTONBURYRADIO.NET talking to the Director 'Time of the Sixth Sun.' a film about 2012 email in at studio2@glastonburyradio.net or call +44(0)1458831171 www.timeofthesixthsun.com

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Pangea Day film festival

2008-01-12T05:29:02Z

www.pangeaday.org

May 10, 2008 -- Pangea Day -- a worldwide film festival! Screens in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro and Tel Aviv will be videoconferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful short films, visionary speakers and great music. Pangea Day grew out of the wish of 2006 TED Prize winner Jehane Noujaim, who made her wish to "unite the world through the power of film."

You can get involved by submitting your own short film, hosting an event, or helping with translation.

Jehane Noujaim's wish:
I wish to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.

As revealed at TED2007:

"TED encouraged me to just throw a dream out there," Jehane says. And her grand, complex, invigorating dream is becoming real, thanks to the TED community.

Starting in June 2007, Pangea Day has been asking people around the world to create short, powerful films that deal with universal themes, such as food, home, water, laughter, sorrow, hope, landscape, despair and joy. (Deadline for submission: February 15, 2008.) Noujaim and a jury of top filmmakers will select films to be featured on Pangea Day, May 10, 2008.

On Pangea Day, live sites in Brazil, Egypt, India, Israel, Rwanda and the United States will be videoconferenced to produce a four-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers and great music. The program will be broadcast live through the Internet, television, digital cinemas and mobile phones. Organized in a Meetup-style model, millions of people from different countries will meet in cinemas, at outdoor screenings and in private homes to watch the Pangea Day program and connect with each other.

Of course, movies alone can't change the world. But the people who watch them can. So at these screenings, we'll give people immediate, practical opportunities to put their inspiration to work through diverse organizations working to solve the challenges that -- sooner or later -- touch everyone on the planet.

How it came together:

Hundreds of offers were received from the TED Community -- however, because the nature of the wish was creative, the first step of this wish was brainstorming the best way to make it happen, and the next step was building an infrastructure around the idea, in build a foundation for the offers of help to land on
TEDster David Alberts, from What on Earth Is Going On, gave many hours of his time around the development and creative of the wish
TEDsters Jim Hornthal, of CMEA Ventures, and Jon Kamen, of @radicalmedia, championed the idea with introductions and advice
TEDster Richard Fox, of Pinstripe.com, built a temporary Pangea Day website
The Sapling Foundation committed up to $1 million in organizational funding
Avenue A / Razorfish volunteered creative services, redesigned the permanent website at www.pangeaday.org and provided advertising and marketing support for the organization
Sunny Vanderbeck, of Data Return, is hosting the Pangea Day website

Into the future:

TED and many heros from the TED community are working closely with Jehane and the Pangea Day team as they set up this global event. For more details on Pangea Day and how to become involved, please visit www.pangeaday.org or send an email to info@pangeaday.org

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trailer for my new film, "The Invisible Forest"

2008-01-05T19:24:35Z

I just completed an indie feature that explores the visions of French Surrealist actor/playwright, Antonin Artaud. The story follows a modern-day theatre director who, while camping out in a forest with his actors, is haunted by a reoccuring dream where Artaud appears. When the dreams persist he visits a Hypnotherapist who guides him into the heart of his disturbed psyche via hypnotic regression. Most of the plot unfolds through the internal ladscape of his dreams, memories and visitations from, what he believes could be, the ghost of Artaud himself.

check out the trailer:
http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/IFFV2.html

the movie site:
http://www.verticalpool.com/if.html

I am in the process of setting up screenings in Seattle, Portland, SF and LA over the next six months.

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embodying spirituality in lifestyle, putting it on the screen

2007-12-19T10:26:31Z

Hi Y'all,

I'll be coming to LA soon. Look forward to connecting with folks about making spiritual/empowering cinema. I think ISE-LA is a good place to start AND I'm all ears to hear what else is going on.

One of my first orders of business is arranging where to live in LA. If you have suggestions, please send them ASAP.

So far the best option I can see is to help expand the Los Angeles Eco Village.

Here's the blurb I've been working with so far:

"Forming Green Household near LA EcoVillage

Are you ready to help build a peaceful, diverse, participatory, just, prosperous, spiritually satisfying, eco-sustainable America starting close to home?

Do you want to live with folks who share that purpose and intend to help you stay healthy and strong, keep learning, growing, and leading creatively?

http://www.laecovillage.org/
http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi/LA_Eco-Village_Overview
http://newurbanism.meetup.com/105/?gj=sj5
http://directory.ic.org/records/?action=view&page=view&record_id=1970

I'm relocating to LA in order to work in the entertainment industry, hoping to whisper to our brothers and sisters who are ready to awaken.

I'd like to build intentional community with some integrally aware and informed cultural workers. Artists, activists and healers are needed now more than ever.

I'd like to find an accessible large apartment or, better yet, a house with yard and garden space near the Los Angeles EcoVillage (near Vermont between 1st and 2nd) to share with a few other people. $50 reward if we move in to the place you've recommended.

I'm hoping to find something in the $600-800/mo. rent per person range. Ideally, I want to have some "slack space" to have a shared multi-purpose room - for small rehearsals, yoga & meditation, dancing, meetings, classes, showing videos, healing sessions, international visitors, short-stay journeypeople, art projects, etc.

Lifestyle wise, I hope we can manage some diversity while fully embodying green values and best practices, such as eating organic and low on the food chain, minimizing toxic exposures, recycling, conserving resources, supporting each other to stay healthy. I've found that shared practices such as respectful honesty, nonviolent communication, consensus decision-making process, sharing of "airtime" and responsibilities help keep a household running smoothly. Self & mutual healing practices with good boundaries support growth and minimize unproductive "drama".

If this interests you, please be in touch!
<dreambody@igc.org> or 877-866-3456
spam and telemarketing are not welcome and will be reported"

I look forward to hearing from you,
Fred

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M Theory, Ed Witten intvw, PBS, 3 hr Doc, Elegant Universe

2007-12-19T10:23:00Z

Cosmonauts,

A lovely interview with Ed Witten at link below and further down on page link to watch all 3 hours of "The ELegant Universe", a fascinating journey from relativity to string theory to the theory of everything, AKA M Theory. Enjoy and would love to discuss.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/el...w-witten.html

Excerpt:

"Many physicists consider Ed Witten to be Einstein's true successor. A mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Witten has been awarded everything from a MacArthur "genius grant" to the Fields Medal, the highest honor in the world of mathematics. His contributions to string theory have been myriad, including the time in 1995 when he gave the then somewhat moribund field a much-needed boost by showing how the five different variations of the theory then competing with one another actually all belonged under one umbrella. In this interview, Witten talks about how the big bang could have coughed up a string so large that it might still survive in the universe and be visible with telescopes—and other ideas to make your head spin."

THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE 3 PART, 3 HOUR DOCUMENTARY:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/el.../program.html

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Multiple Dimensions, interview with Lisa Randall on Charlie Rose

2007-10-21T23:19:51Z

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2006/12/12/1/a-conversation-about-physics-with-lisa-randall

It's nice to see this fascinating subject being discussed on Charlie Rose than yet another movie star or politician! I've long been interested in M theory and am surprised that Lisa Randall doesn't reference it. The gravity issue is definately a pivotal one....the fact that it is so weak relatively and yet the positional glue....

Phenomenons like levitation brought about by frequential shifts or atunements such as has been observed abundantly in India are yet another piece of the puzzle that science seems reluctant to admit into the investigation of matter and energy. Quantum physics does acknowledge the observer effect, hence that consciousness is not in a vaccuum and to an extent creates that which it observes (or frames it might be a better term), but it has yet to go so far as to incorporate it into the whole e=mc2 cascade of explorations and the current look at membranes, or "branes" as proposed by Ed Witten (I thought a woman had co-conceived this but will have to look into that further)

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The Shift - A movie made by a movement

2007-09-22T18:40:21Z

THE SHIFT movie raises awareness to the story of our roles in an evolutionary shift in our collective consciousness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzG0z1K3Do

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Captain Sweep's; Web-TV Show Episode: Wake UP Call # 1: The North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement

2007-08-17T14:49:58Z

Web-TV Show Episode: Wake UP Call # 1: The North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement Fri, August 17, 2007 - 7:25 AM

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2066838713748894566&hl=en-CA

After 9-11 I sent out the first written Wake-Up Call to my immediate circle of influence. I was incensed by what I had seen . How could these buildings fall down the way they did from a plane hitting them?They looked like controlled demolitions. It was so obvious! So I jabbed at the keyboard and wrote what I thought were exceptionally important words in an even exceedingly significant message. I was going to wake up the people around me to this pathetic deception!

Within the message I declared myself a pi-rate. The character of Captain Sweep was born and I expected this to create quite a stir in my network. Well...things are a bit different in retrospect. If anything all I did was add to the mounting evidence to my circle that I have gone completely off the deep end. I thought I would get a message back from everyone saying at least something...and the largest message I received was silence.

I was shocked. It was almost inconceivable to me that my Wake Up Call was to fall on deaf ears. Didn't they see the implications? Didn't they know what this meant? Wasn't it time to stand up together and do something?

I grew angry and frustrated at the perceived complacency. Since that time I have come to realize many things. One of them is that by that time my voice had lost a great deal of credibility because of the life I had chosen to live. I had not taken the road of credible institutions to work at, I didn't have a good corporate job....I was just another lost soul that was placed into a category of "not to be listened to" due to the strange disturbing messages I would put out out from time to time.

Of course this is and still is only based upon my perspective. Who knows what people thought. I know a lot of people. The degree to which they are influenced by anything I may say is a wide spectrum. We are so overwhelmed with messages why should anything I say have any more impact than anything else....

Why am I saying all this now?

I am trying to give a context...set a scene...build up to the present by saying something of the past and in some ways I have come full circle by again sending out a new Videoized Wake Up Call to my circle of Influence. Much has changed since that first one. I am not the same person and the world is no longer the place it was.

I know that there is enough evidence to support my claims in regards to 9-11 being a modern day Reichstag that was created to build home support for everything that has happened since...Afghanistan, Iraq, the Patriotic Act are steps towards a future where we will see all of our identity cards and even ourselves microchipped and under surveillance 24/7.

The Canada that we knew when we were growing up is changing quickly and even now, 6 years later, you must see some of the writing on the wall. We are one of the richest countries in the world and as water runs out as well as oil we could be THE richest country in the world. And yet we allow small groups of bankers to control and own most of the world and soon to include most of Canada.

They do this through putting puppets in power who sign agreements that then become laws and then they have a rigged legal system to defend their claims.

The latest agreement is the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement signed by Martin, Fox and Bush in Waco Texas in May of 2005. Have you even heard of it? Most Canadians haven't. There are over 300 resolutions that are being put in place WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC CONSULTATION. They refer to how we will live, our environmental regulations and what kind of security precautions will be in place when we finally figure out we've been scammed and decide to do something about it.

George Bush is coming to Ottawa on August 20th and there is a growing awareness in Canada that we had better start to make some noise until it becomes a cry across the country to make this an election issue and at least pretend to give us a say in this manner as with NAFTA.

This web TV episode highlights a forum (about the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement) held in Victoria on August 15th, 2007 that was put on by a coalition between the Victoria Peace Coalition, the Victoria Chapter of the Council of Canadians and the Victoria Seniors. 4 Speakers are heard, Connie Fogal (Leader of the Canadian Action Party), Bo Filter (author and social activist), Bob Hansen (Council of Canadians -Nanaimo Chapter), and Denise Savoie (Victoria MP), and each brings a unique perspective to how badly we are being screwed by those supposed to look after the good of the nation.

I am sending this out to everyone i know with the hopes that it passes through word of mouth to those who have ears to listen. The normal media is not covering this and that's because the same people who are putting these agreements in place own the media. I really hope that you take the time to watch this and that this will lead eventually to a general strike across the country. Our children's future is being stolen and if we do not take a stand now it will be too late. Watch the video and pass it on. That's all you have to do.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2066838713748894566&hl=en-CA

If you do take the time to watch the video and pass it on then many thanks. If you don't because you are too busy...don't complain when in 10 years your life is actually effected by what is happening now. You were warned and you did nothing about it. That may sound harsh but the Canadian Middle class needs a wake up call because you have it so good...and the baby boomers may be called baby doomers because you were the richest generation ever and you left the biggest mess for your children and grandchildren to clean up. WAKE UP!

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Children of Men

2007-08-15T14:57:04Z

Anyone see this film? I don't think it was particularly made to raise conciousness, but I really felt it said a lot about the human qualities that define society. It was reflexive in the importance of life in all stages, and open ended about blame/understanding/cooperation.

Anyone have any commentary? My daughter hated it because she felt it was emotionless.

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A Wake on the Pier

2007-07-20T22:15:35Z

http://springtimefilms.com/awakeonthepier/watch.htm

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Zeitgeist

2007-07-20T21:33:44Z

What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve ... all have in common?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com for more information

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LSD Documentary on Youtube

2007-07-16T04:49:53Z

This four part documentary by Aron Ranen (who teaches at http://DVworkshops.com) is currently available at Realitysurfer on youtube. Part 1 includes Groucho Marx on LSD & the LSD-fueled brothel run by the CIA.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdz0G4lG6k

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47vt5Z5wxoI

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNODtfw0K3o

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoSBuY54TIE

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New Tribe: Columbia Digital Arts Coalition

2007-07-16T04:32:34Z

For ALL things relating to Digital Art.
www.tribes.tribe.net/columbiadigitalartscoalition

Peace!

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THE FOUNTAIN

2007-07-13T17:39:14Z

Aronofsky's visionary masterpiece, "THE FOUNTAIN", did horribly at the box office yet it contained for me some of the most exquisitely beautiful visual and musical visions I have seen onscreen. Cinemacosmiconsciousnes...indeed. This links to the final fifteen minute climax; ya gotta check it out:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1wlcn_fontn-pt-6

the movie site
http://thefountainmovie.warnerbros.com/

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Zoetrope (1999)

2007-07-05T02:20:57Z

Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man is imprisoned for an unnamed crime and tortured by a nameless sadistic bureaucrat. As the chilling nightmare unfolds, the prisoner peels away the layers of his own metaphysical existence, inching ever closer to his inescapable fate. Hatched from the fertile imagination of Director Charlie Deaux, ZOETROPE’s richly complex visuals and dark atmosphere cast a spell of fear and terror far beyond its tightly edited 20 minute length. It’s easy to wonder if he’s the bastard son of Lars von Trier, or a lost cousin of the Brothers Quay. The music and sound design for ZOETROPE were composed by Lustmord, and compliment the harrowing visuals perfectly.

Watch Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLe3P0xYd50
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope_(film)
Watch Film on Alternet: http://www.altertube.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=5763a55cc64242264431
Download Torrent: http://www.alterati.net/details.php?id=361856

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Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

2007-07-01T06:34:04Z

"Only the fittest survive in this moving documentary by Hubert Sauper about hard-scabble life in Tanzania. While hungry Tanzanians are left to fend for themselves on whatever they can get their hands on -- fish-heads, scraps -- their waters are emptied of perch that's imported to wealthier nations. Weapons are brought in far more often than food and clothing for the needy, as the country teeters on the brink of devastation."

A wonderfully heart-breaking and tragic film about the impact of globalization in a world where only the "fittest" (read: luckiest, richest, 'whitest') survive. While the lighting and sound looked obviously amateurish, the heart and depth that comes through the editing of its subject matter make up for it many times over -- highly recommended.

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Sublime (2007)

2007-06-28T03:36:49Z

This straight-to-DVD unrated GEM is described as an "eerie medical mind-bender" about how a confrontation with True Fear can illuminate the issues of an entire life, including those that are extended throughout the world. The film begins with the successful middle-aged white male, George Grieves, goes in to the hospital for a "routine medical procedure" the day after his 40th birthday. The "routine" quickly unravels and the film treads a fine line between reality and the psychotic & delusional clarity that erupts from deep within his psyche as he attempts to bring together what parts of himself are still accessible to him without, ultimately, succumbing to the profound depths of his own dearly held fears to which he's clung for most of his life. This one strikes a resonant chord with me -- having known people (and have, myself) experience some of medical injustices first-hand. Check it out, if you get around to it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822858/

Post back with comments once you've watched it. highly recommended!

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Alex Grey chakra thingy

2007-06-25T04:10:14Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyzIKDVxw3Y&mode=related&search=

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Tuileries

2007-06-12T14:29:06Z

In this particular segment of the film Paris je t’aime (Paris, I love you, 2006) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%2C_je_t%27aime], directed by the Coen Brothers, Steve Buscemi is an American tourist who got to see another side of France while waiting for the metro at Tuileries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnO6nDTMpqo | I have not yet seen this film in its entirety, but it looks rather interesting. Think I'll check it out.

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You, Me and Everyone we Know

2007-06-06T18:12:33Z

I saw this film last night. My counterpart thought it was just for funny and anecdotal, but i felt it had more to say. Any opinions or insights out there?

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David Lynch in Utne Reader

2007-06-06T13:31:53Z

http://www.utne.com/issues/2007_141/gleanings/12534-1.html

Deep Thoughts by David Lynch
The director of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet on calming his twisted mind

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Antero Alli on radio, Sun. June 3, podcast; 1pm PDT

2007-06-01T19:16:40Z

Sunday June 3rd at 1pm (Pacific time), I will talk on the radio about filmmaking in general and my film, "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" in particular. This will air on a show dedicated to Finnish culture (I am Finnish born and this film has Finnish language in it) on KUSF. 90.3 FM in San Francisco.

You can also hear it online
Sunday June 3rd at 1pm (Pacific time)
at: http://www.kusf.org/index.shtml

clip of "Under a Shipwrecked Moon":
http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/UASMFV.html

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So. Cal, Costume/Fashion Designer . . .

2007-05-20T18:51:06Z

Just saw a post for the Masquerade Ball, and wanted to offer my assistance to anyone attending the ball or other events this summer (Ren Faires, proms etc.) . . . I designed for the ball last year, and have some free time over the next few months . . . my resume and a lot of my work is on my profile . . .
Anam Cara, Bonnie

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De Düva: The Dove

2007-05-17T05:56:00Z

http://www.alterati.com/altertube/view_video.php?viewkey=9336a670e36d0ed79bc4

This short film parody of Ingmar Bergman’s better known films, including Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, whose principal character, Professor Viktor Sundqvist, 76, is being driven to a lecture at the university, when dove droppings splatter the car’s windshield. Detouring at his uncle’s old house, his mind wanders back to his youth, when Death came to a family picnic to claim his sister, Inga. Knowing that Death is a gambler, Viktor has Inga challenge Death to a single-point game of badminton for her life. While they are playing, a dove flies above, soiling Death’s cape, and distracting him enough to miss the birdie. Having won the game, Inga is free, and she and Viktor run off for a swim in the lake.

ah, de düva esq a spashi triska

The dialogue, seemingly in Swedish, is actually a Swedish-accented fictional language based on English, German, Latin, and Swedish, with most nouns ending in “ska”.

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Screening of "Signs Out of Time" -- Gaia Festival, Pacific Palisades, CA

2007-05-14T15:28:52Z

Film duration is 58:40 and will be followed by a short discussion.
Date & Time: 5/26/07, 9:15 pm
Location: Woodland Hall

Greetings,

At Gaia Festival this year, we are offering a screening of the documentary film, "Signs Out of Time," about the life and work of visionary archaeologist Marija Gimbutas on May 26, 2007 starting at 9:15pm.

Marija Gimbutas changed the way the world saw Neolithic cultures of Old Europe and helped us gain a new vision of how life can be - peaceful, cooperative and Earth-centered.

Marija’s controversial interpretations of the thousands of Goddess figurines she unearthed during her archaeological excavations gained her both staunch supporters and adversaries.

“Signs Out of Time” was produced by Donna Read and Starhawk, without any grants, funded by individuals who believed in the importance of Marija’s work.

More than ever before, Marija’s work needs to be brought to the public’s attention. Now, with the Earth in an ecological crisis of dire proportions, humankind must step up to care for Her, for Gaia, to ensure sustainable life on this planet for future generations. Order your own copy of this inspiring documentary on the Belili Productions website (http://www.belili.org/order.html).

For more information about Gaia Festival, please email Kris Oster (kris@gaiafestival.com) and check out our website with the full schedule and descriptions of workshops and events: www.gaiafestival.com.

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My film HYSTERIA screens 5/4 in Berkeley

2007-04-30T06:18:31Z

The months following the 9/11 attacks I made this film about a fanatical Catholic boxer who confuses a drug-induced hallucination for a genuine religious visitation from the Virgin Mary. It got great reviews (see link below), went the film fest circuit but never got picked up for distribution (boo hoo). I will attend this upcoming screening and would love to talk to anyone about it there.

Here's the basic info plus some links. I got permission to screen it in an old church which, after the lights go out, is a pretty amazing screening room with great acoustics. After five minutes, you even forget you're sitting on pews.

Friday May 4, 8pm.
Grace North Church sanctuary
2138 Cedar (near Walnut) Berkeley. $6. admission
http://www.gracenorthchurch.org/

CLIP OF OPENING SCENE
http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/hysteriaFV.html

THIS FILM REVIEWED
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=3030

MOVIE SITE
http://www.verticalpool.com/hysteria.html

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vid: awakening - a biological necessity.

2007-04-03T18:48:34Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWZc1cRLnA

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Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE

2007-03-18T18:17:14Z

I found David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE to be a most amazing film. A bit like a Rorschach test, whatever I saw and whatever that meant to me was as much the movie as what was projected onto the big screen. Maybe more. I also relate to Jodorowsky's ("El Topo". "Holy Mountain", "Santa Sange") films this way and I love his work for that.

The proliferaton of X factors and hidden variables embedded in INLAND EMPIRE gave me a very liberating cinema experience. I never knew what was going to happen next; not a problem...a constant joy. A gleeful rejoicing. Too bad the film was panned by most critics whose over-literalized cynical intellects didn't know how to cope with that much delicious uncertainty.

Sure it was too long and there were maybe way too many close-ups of Laura Dern but these petty quibblings pale next to the soaring imagination at work here and the sheer audacity of Art triumphing over Commerce.

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looking For Filmmakers/Editors

2007-03-08T06:18:40Z

I am looking to collaborate with filmakers/editors for my upcoming artshow
its abstract film and pretty much straight foward to film/ edit
if you have bad ass cameras thats a plus
this is paid work, please email me with resume if you are interested in the gig
thank you

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Seen Michel Gondry's newest flick anyone?

2007-03-07T22:28:00Z

Has anyone seen "The science of sleep" and have anything to say about it?

The website is accepting submissions of people's dreams and also video shorts depicting people's dreams. I think that's an excellent idea! I've wanted to build a library of people's subconscious, but he beat me to it! Can still do it I suppose...anyway, could be something fun to contribute to....it's on the film site somewhere or on the myspace page. Let u know when I get a moment.

Bella

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The Bio-diversity code

2007-03-02T18:45:02Z

Dear Cosmic travellers,

In case you have not seen this yet, this cleverly conveyed PSA and call to action contains a saliently powerful message and is an example of the sustainability movement’s increasingly sophisticated use of new media.

Co-developed by the animation studio which brought you the “Meatrix” and various experts on extinction and its impact on our functioning web of life, the movie is positioned on a site with links to related groups and initiatives, as well as some serious underlying content. The short Flash movie in itself teaches the basic, critical lesson. Watch and spread the word, especially where you feel the film could have most impact.

BTW, the LEARN MORE and TAKE ACTION buttons lead to extensive, well produced educational presentations, and options for aiding our rapid evolution that are on the main sponsor, Harvard Medical School’s site.

http://www.daversitycode.com/

Bella

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/h/harmony
(Film site coming soon)

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EL TOPO and HOLY MOUNTAIN now in limited release

2007-02-08T07:28:41Z

New prints of two rare and highly dynamic mystical films, EL TOPO and HOLY MOUNTAIN, by Alejandro Jodorowsky are now in limited theatrical release across the USA; details at:

http://abkcofilms.com/

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Trailer for my new feature underground film

2007-01-30T06:01:47Z

"THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE" (USA. 2007; 91 min.). Antero Alli.

SYNOPSIS
The daily routines of four roomates, a live-in boyfriend and their visiting landlord are jolted by the news of an alleged bioterrorist attack in their city. Ona, a webcast diva with her own show, thinks the feds are staging this attack as a shift into a fullblown police state. Her roomies think she's paranoid. During a 48-hour citywide bio-hazard lockdown, they are all forced to come to their own conclusions about what is happening during their current state of escalating uncertainty.

TRAILER
http://fractalvideo.com/HTML/MMFV.html

World premiere:
Jan. 25 (Oakland).

Movie site:
http://www.verticalpool.com/themindisaliarandawhore.html

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need help in fiinging film/video makers with .. interest in evolution of consciouseness.

2007-01-26T22:50:58Z

Hey everybody... I work out at the Omega Institute... some may have heard of it, its a holistic educational retreat center, in the hudson valley just north of NYC.

Im writing to ask for ideas on where to find people that may be interested in working in a video production environment that aims to produce video content for the web to stimulate evolutions of consciousness.

I manage our video program here. I need to recruit a neat load of seasonal staff (March through October). Every year we run a video production team that shoots and edits interviews with leaders in the field of consciouseness, presence, mind/body practices, shamanism, womens rights, and sustainability. We also participate intimately in the production of large conferences and workshops on similar subjects.

Im just looking for leads and brainstorms on how to locate people that would really love and benifit from the oppurtunity.

We have slots for the most inexperienced and here to learn, to the working professional who like to chill out and enjoy a 'retreat' type job for a while.

I'd love to talk more with people about what are program is and is growing into being. Id love feedback and ideas.

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Seeking Producer to help me over the finish line with a outstanding Docu-Myth

2006-11-15T03:47:18Z

Greetings-
I am human and a documentarian, HI. Presently I am in the stage of developing a documentary, where another mind will come in handy. I have loads of experience - I’ve shoot for the National Geographic, several other production including TV and feature, and I am branching out with my own feature length documentary that has taken me 5 years to conceive and research. Details, however are for those who show interest, but lets just say it’s on human potential, consciousness and examining the roots of this renaissance I see at present. There are potential avenues to approach for financing and continual development grants, I’m almost prepared to submit I would like to work with someone from here on out, to shine, contribute and polish all I've done to date. I am of the Y chromosome, so a female would be nice to balance the flow or whatever, but beggars can’t be choosers, so if where working with the same hardware, so be it. A low-fi trailer/teaser can be viewed on my profile as well as a few additional segments located at myspace/2012orbust. Best wishes to those who read this and look forward to any feedback.

In’lake’ch and all that jazz see you in the Zuvuya
B. No

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View this now....www.flightofthehumpback.org

2006-11-15T03:39:47Z

Hey All...
....Just returned from an amazing trip up north, to Frazer Island-Hervey Bay, here in Australia.
Check out the weekly raw footage/preview clips for the "Flight Of The Humpback" film due for release soon.
I had the most amazing time with the Whales, Dolphins and Beautiful crew....Life is expanding for me now, in so many Beautiful ways....
....watch these clips #'s 4&5....Enjoy my song....the peace of the Whales....and magical sights of our Oceanic Brothers and Sisters.

Peace...

* Nadja ~ OM Shanti *

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One, a beautiful documentary on Oneness

2006-11-13T16:09:01Z

Hi All,

This is such a beautiful documentary. I have a copy and found myself in a mixture of happy and sad tears at the sheer beauty of our world’s diversity. It is such a powerful film. It gives me chills, just watching the trailer again.

http://onetheproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=47

Basically, they went around the world, asking folks from every walk of life (and religion) the same 20 questions….from Thich Nhat Hanh and Ram Dass to a street kid in Colorado and an athiest.

This film does NOT tout any one idea or way of looking at things. Instead, it shows the diversity of us all and in a simplistic way, shows that we although we may look different, have different cultures, different beliefs and different lifestyles, we are still all one.

Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh, Father Thomas Keating, Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Riane Eisler, Robert Thurman, Sadhguru Jaggi Vadsudev, The voice of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and many more...

http://onetheproject.com/dvd.html

The 20 Questions:

1. Why is there poverty and suffering in the world?
2. What is the relationship between science and religion?
3. Why are so many people depressed?
4. What are we all so afraid of?
5. When is war justifiable?
6. How would God want us to respond to aggression and terrorism?
7. How does one obtain true peace?
8. What does it mean to live in the present moment?
9. What is our greatest distraction?
10. Is current religion serving its purpose?
11. What happens to you after you die?
12. Describe Heaven and how to get there.
13. What is the meaning of life?
14. Describe God.
15. What is the greatest quality humans possess?
16. What is it that prevents people from living to their full potential?
17. Non-verbally, by motion or gesture only, act out what you believe to be the current condition of the world.
18. What is your one wish for the world?
19. What is wisdom, and how do we gain it?
20. Are we all One?

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Free Hugs!

2006-10-05T07:11:51Z

http://people.tribe.net/skeyeopener/blog/8ada5657-0505-498f-be18-7e2bf783b85d

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http://groups.myspace.com/consciouscinema

2006-10-02T19:05:54Z

Any of you lovelys on Myspace?

http://groups.myspace.com/consciouscinema

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Film Funding

2006-10-02T19:04:32Z

Do you or someone you know have a script that you believe will make a great movie? If so, and the script has already been through many drafts, I would like to hear from you or your producer. Any budget above $500k, and some level of an investors' package is welcomed.
Please no horror or porn.
Thank you,

Andrew C. Bangsberg
Entertainment Deal Maker
andrewbangsberg@yahoo.com
Hollywood, CA

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profile films.

2006-09-28T15:47:27Z

Hi,

Whom of you wonderful people have films you have made on your profile?
please post a link below.

cheers,
Tor.

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Celestine Prophecy

2006-08-03T16:19:06Z

Anyone Seen It?

http://www.thecelestineprophecymovie.com

Taken from the website:

Based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

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calling for visionaries - new tribe

2006-07-22T20:02:18Z

Visionaries with art and ideas to share:

Let our visions abound and express. Let us see into the possiblities of imagination and share our visions in word and image.

Some common wisdom says problems cannot be solved at the same level from which they are created. We must make leaps of imagination to move into positive change. Take the leap, the challenge, and share what you find, that we may each make successive leaps further beyond the bounds of convention.
http://tribes.tribe.net/visionartsminds

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tribe video- ultra niche markets, distribution and promotion what are your goals.

2006-07-20T16:48:44Z

i am curious about people's experience posting video here on tribe.

what are peole's goals? is it to sell downloads and DVD's. is it to push tribe members to your video websites where they can see more video and engage in some level of commerce?

has anyone really noticed a spike or lift in the traffic to their video sites after posting to tribe.

are people loking for ways to finance thier video past/future.

is an ad supported revenue model attractive to the filmmakers?

what are the primary obstacles filmakers face in raising awareness to their projects?

i am working to define solutions to most of these issues and would love to hear back from anyone.

blessings-

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film review: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2006-07-10T08:19:36Z

http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=184

The Musical as Transformative Matrix: Metamorphosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

By Ben Hixon
Change. Transformation. Movement, passage, progression. These are the inherent qualities of music: unable to be perceived instantaneously, music exists only as change over time. Unlike visual sensations, sound must be given time and attention to transform and grow, and there is no point at which it stops, not even at its “end”; in memory, a song is perceived not as its endpoint, its last word or chord, but as an entire spectrum of change.

In the current “renaissance” of television and filmic musicals, one of the most powerful and original in my opinion is an adaptation of an off-Broadway musical, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the story of a struggling punk-rocker drag queen in search of her identity. Most visual media is unable to capture the changing nature of music: while sounds exist over time, the visuals are instantaneous and secure, and there is in general little transformation of character and scene from the initial introduction to the conclusion. But this is not the case in Hedwig. Its most prevalent theme is transformation, and all represented social beings are intertwined hybrids reflective of identity performativity, epitomising Judith Butler’s catch phrase “gender is drag”. All identity is drag, existing in a state of constant reconstruction due to performative discourse, and Hedwig resounds with this idea.

Every character in the film is in a state of flux. Hedwig’s partner Yitzhak transforms during the last performance, becoming a beautiful woman carried like Venus on the arms of the audience. Hedwig changes Tommy Gnosis drastically, transforming him from a “seventeen-year-old, classic-rock-loving, Dungeons-and-Dragons obsessed Jesus Freak with a fish on his truck” into a gothic rock star. Hedwig herself is focused on the most, moving from her childhood as a boy in East Berlin to her botched sex-change operation, leaving her in a state somewhere between “man” and “woman”. East Berlin changes from cold war dead zone to western capitalist city, and Hedwig’s mother changes from haggard housewife to sunbathing maiden. The plotline introduces metamorphosis upon metamorphosis, but possibly the most intense representations of change lie within the lyrics of the wonderfully catchy songs, especially “Origin of Love” and “Wig in a Box”.

“Origin” tells the story of humankind’s passage from two-headed to one-headed body, split apart by the gods out of their fear of the humans becoming too powerful. The gods’ fear of a change in their own status led to a transformation of humankind and the introduction of love as the magnetism between two previously-joined halves. “Wig in a Box” is even more indicative of change: performed right after Hedwig’s post-Berlin husband, for whom she underwent the sex change, leaves her, the song shows Hedwig’s transition from broken divorcee to punk rocker. Each transformation is represented by a wig: from “Miss Midwest Midnight Checkout Queen” to “Miss Beehive 1963” to “Miss Farrah Fawcett from TV,” and finally to “this punk rock star of stage and screen”. The film sequence accompanying this song is a wonderful ode to transformation, not only of Hedwig’s own body but also of her home, which changes from trailer to blindingly lit rock-and-roll stage.

The last fifteen minutes of the film are perhaps the most schizophrenic and the most transformative. Hedwig’s life and the lives of those around her changes rapidly and radically: her band having left her, she moves from struggling rock star to street prostitute, and then upon reuniting with Tommy Gnosis, becomes jailbird, icon of rock music scandal, and national celebrity. Following that sequence is the most intensely metamorphosing point in the film, the performance of the song “Exquisite Corpse”. Hedwig cries out her punk rocking life to a fan-filled audience, declaring her body as “A random pattern with a needle and thread/The overlapping way diseases are spread/Through a tornado body with a hand grenade head/And the legs are two lovers entwined”. Her anger and violence estranges the audience, and in a trauma of lights and noise and boos she smashes her instruments and tears out her breasts, exposing them as oranges—not revealing their “true nature” but allowing her breasts to metamorphose into oranges. She crawls off the stage bombarded with vegetables from the now hateful audience, and the scene switches to Tommy Gnosis, who in the song “Wicked Little Town” thrusts Hedwig’s changing being in her face, telling her “’Cause with all the changes you've been through/It seems the stranger's always you”. These words cause Hedwig’s tears to fall in rivulets, smearing her makeup across her face. The scene then becomes the performance of the final song, “Midnight Radio”, which next to “Exquisite Corpse” is the most visceral and representative of motion:

And you're shining
Like the brightest star
A transmission
On the midnight radio
And you're spinning
Like a 45
Ballerina
Dancing to your rock and roll
This is the performance during which Yitzhak dons Hedwig’s wig and is carried over the audience. The band is dressed in white, Hedwig is shirtless and so looks like a “man”, but with heavy eye shadow to still indicate his transitional status. The audience applauds, and then we shift to the final scene, in which a naked Hedwig walks along a dark alley, back to the camera, moving away and disappearing into the night.

Musicals tend to revolve around change, as the nature of music is to exist over time, not to be perceived all at once. When music is the story-driver, then the visuals must follow along and so also exist over time, not comprehended in one instant but perceived as a spectrum of change. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is an especially vivid portrayal of the power of transformation in film, and of the ability of musicals and transformative media in general to not only represent but to incite change, to aid in the viewer’s escape from a static normativity to an open, free transitional being in which there are no limits and anything is possible.

Ben Hixon is a student at Middle Tennessee State University, where he studies genetics and biotechnology, while avidly reading every contemporary theory article he can get his hands on. His main theoretical areas of interest are queer and disability theories, the posthuman and the cyborg, and the interplay of narrative, discourse, and normativity. You can contact him at sbh2c@mtsu.edu.

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FW: take two dig deep

2006-06-21T23:59:06Z

Here is the very inspiring music video a friend of mine sent me lately.

http://www.worldonfire.ca/

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Rainbow Serpent Project Film

2006-06-20T02:33:46Z

Now available for your viewing pleasure and mind expanding experience, the first of the Rainbow Serpent Project Films is available to be screened right here on Tribe, just click my profile and there you have it! enjoy – love, light and peace, Tor

http://therainbowserpent.tribe.net
www.rainbowserpent.co.uk

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Dose of Inspiration

2006-06-19T20:29:10Z

This was just brought to my attention. Might be worth looking into.

Best,
Andrew

http://www.doseofinspiration.com/

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Ten Films from Online Media Sources

2006-06-07T06:35:12Z

Dear CinemaConsciousness,

Some wonderful feature-length and short films have recently become available online at various hubs on the internet. Ubuweb (http://www.ubu.com; http://www.greylodge.org/gpc/?p=411) and Greylodge (http://greylodge.org/gpc/), not to mention Google Video (http://video.google.com), YouTube (http://www.youtube.com), and Elsewhere (http://www.Ifilm.com) have made streaming video an extremely viable new form of media distribution and dissemination.

All culture critiques and commentaries aside, some of the media that has come through are really actually worth checking out. Here, submitted for your approval, are a few of these which may be worthy of your attention:

(*NOTE: Some of the links provided are for large files and/or bittorrent -- make sure you have enough diskspace for the avi. media and familiarize yourself with Torrents using bittorrent before clicking.)

1. SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8714482344821425610&q

Excellent documentary about the Amazonian Shamans and their use of the sacred Ayahuasca vine to communicate with the ... all » Spirits of the Forest. Includes footage of peaceful drug-prohibition protests, an interview with Terence Mckenna, criticism of the so called "war on drugs" (essentially a form of cultural genocide), the corruption within large oil companies and governments, many civil rights issues, etc.

During the making of this film: * 16 million acres of Amazon Rainforest was destroyed. * 150,000 species became extinct. * In Ecuador, 9 oil spills released millions of gallons of crude oil into the head waters of the Amazon. * Scientists worldwide agreed that Global Warming and climate change is a major threat facing all life on Earth. * Natural disasters including volcanic eruptions increased. * In the Netherlands, the case against the Santo Daime was thrown out of court. The judge found Ayahuasca use was not a risk to public health and their constitutional right to freedom of religion must be respected. * Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Belguim and The Netherlands decriminalised most drugs. * The USA gave the Taliban in Afghanistan $43 million dollars for the War on Drugs. * The USA was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commision. * Humanity stands at the crossroads...

2. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PHILIP K. DICK (Film Threat)
(dir. by Mark Steensland, 80 min., TKO Productions)
http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/gettorrent.php?info_hash=5522d0f91bcc4c8ab4db37b1613b08d0e60085a9

If you think hardcore fans of science fiction tend to be an odd bunch, what does that say about the creators of the genre? In the case of cult favorite Philip K. Dick, best known for “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, the basis for “Blade Runner”, even his best friends would have to admit the man was at least a bit eccentric, if not a few sandwiches shy of a picnic. Dick’s fiction tended to center around questions of reality and identity, and the new documentary “The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick” makes it clear that these questions haunted the author himself until his death in 1982.

The bulk of “Gospel” is comprised of talking-head interviews with luminaries such as Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminati trilogy, and Paul Williams, who interviewed Dick for a 1974 Rolling Stone profile that elevated the author’s reputation from the underground. These interviews are linked by animated interludes, featuring a cartoon Philip K. Dick mouthing to the writer’s actual voice, courtesy of audio clips from interview tapes made by Williams and others.

The portrait that emerges is as fascinating and unnerving as any of Dick’s fiction. We learn of a 1971 break-in at Dick’s house, during which valuable papers were apparently stolen from a safe that was blown open with explosives. Dick’s friends speculate that the safe may in fact have contained heroin, as Dick was basically hosting an open house for young druggies in the early 70’s and was quite taken with illegal narcotics himself.

There is an attempted suicide, and then the arrival of “the Xerox missive” - a letter Dick predicted would kill him. And most peculiar of all, a series of visions which consumed Dick for most of the last decade of his life, causing him to all but give up fiction in order to focus on his “Exegesis”, a 10,000+ page attempt at coming to terms with the meaning of life.

The friends who speak of Dick in the documentary are a curious bunch themselves, but they have in common a respect and affection for the late author that comes through in their stories, no matter how outlandish. The animated segments, as well as a pulsating sci-fi soundtrack, evoke a tone of paranoia that seems to mirror Dick’s worldview. “Gospel” is clearly a labor of love, designed to appeal to fans and novices alike. Its goal is summed up neatly in the title card that ends it: “Now go read some PKD.” - Scott Von Doviak

3. SURFACING ON THE THAMES (19700
by David Rimmer
Canada, silent, colour, 8 mins, 16mm
http://ubu.wfmu.org/video/Rimmer-David_Surfacing-the-Thames_1970.avi
Format: avi (xvid) | Size: 134mb

‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame techniques, elaborate dissolves, and most of the resources on the optical table, this picture is, amongst other things, a Turner come to life. Rimmer’s concern with the surface nature of the film is most evident in this work which, in spite of its filmic complexity, is incredibly simple.’ — Donald Richie, (Museum of Modern Art)

“SURFACING is a brilliant film which, in its way, belongs in the same class as Snow’s WAVELENGTH. I’ve never seen anything like it. Rimmer rear-projected a ten-second sequence of old World War II footage showing two ships passing on the Thames. He rear-projected each frame, filmed it for several seconds, then lap-dissolved to the next frame, filmed it for several seconds, etc. The result is a mind-blowing film of invisible motion. The ships pass one another like the hands of a clock, without apparent motion.

“SURFACING ON THE THAMES is the ultimate metaphysical movie, the ultimate post-minimal movie, one of the really great constructivist films since WAVELENGTH. It confronts empirically the illusions of space and time in the Cinema and, in my estimation, is at least as important as WAVELENGTH as a statement on the illusionistic nature of cinematic motion.” —Gene Youngblood, ArtsCanada magazine
Collection: Museum of Modern Art, NY

4. THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT (1964) by Alfred Leslie
http://ubu.wfmu.org/video/Leslie-Alfred_The-Last-Clean-Shirt_1964.avi
Format: avi (xvid) | Size: 173mb

In 1964, American painter and film maker Alfred Leslie and poet Frank O’Hara completed the movie The Last Clean Shirt. It was first shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1964 and later that year at Lincoln Center in New York, causing an uproar among the audience. The movie shows two characters, a black man and a white woman, driving around Manhattan in a convertible car. The Last Clean Shirt is a true collaboration between a film maker and a poet since Frank O’Hara wrote the subtitles to the dialogue or rather the monologue: the woman is indeed the only character who speaks and she furthermore expresses herself in Finnish gibberish, which demanded that subtitles be added.

The notion of territory, of American territory, is particularly relevant to see, read or listen to The Last Clean Shirt. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a territory is ‘the extent of the land belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a ruler or State.’ It can also be ‘an area defended by an animal or group of animals against others of the same species or an area defended by a team or player in a game.’ Finally, a territory is ‘a tract of land, a district of undefined boundaries; a region’ and ‘an area of knowledge, a sphere of thought or action, a province.’

The film engages some of these notions such as the idea that a territory has to be fought for, or claimed, that it is an area defined by rules and norms. That such rules and norms can be redefined as in a game. To the territory of the city (Manhattan) The Last Clean Shirt juxtaposes more formal and virtual territories: the spaces that matter in the film are more literary and artistic than physical.

The idea of bifurcation, of swerving is at the heart of the film. Although the car itself only makes three turns all in all (including a U-turn), the turning, swerving and skidding takes place elsewhere: such is the uncharted territory that Leslie and O’Hara invite us to explore. For us spectators sitting at the back of the car, the question is: when is it that we are getting off the road?

One can read or see The Last Clean Shirt as a parodic road movie and one might wonder if we are not driving on a side street instead of on the main street. If we accept the ride we are offered, we soon veer off and hit unknown roads towards metaphorical and virtual territories.

The Last Clean Shirt was even more avant-garde or visionary than critics were able to see at the time: it is not merely a film but a new form of work of art, a new literary object, in the wake of the simultaneous poem (Blaise Cendrars). One might then wonder how the film goes beyond simultaneity in the mapping of a new artistic space created between images and words.

Lastly, 30 years before the advent of the internet, one might contend that The Last Clean Shirt had a stab at creating a form of hypertextual or ‘intermedia’* space.

[Note * The term ‘intermedia’ is here borrowed from Dick Higgins’s essay ‘Synesthesia & Intersenses : Intermedia’ originally published in Something Else Newsletter 1, No. 1 (Something Else Press, 1966). It has been reprinted as a chapter in Dick Higgins, Horizons, the Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984). In the essay, Dick Higgins writes that he borrowed the word ‘Intermedia’ from Coleridge.]

5. ALTERNATIVE 3 (1977)
by Anglia TV
http://www.secret-cinema.com/download.php/1223/Alternative%203%20%281977%29.avi.%5Bwww.secret-cinema.com%5D.torrent
Format: avi (xvid) | Size: 700mb

On June 20, 1977, Anglia TV in England broadcast a documentary titled Alternative 3. The show, presented as part of a regular series called ‘Science Report’, began with the announcer explaining that they had originally intended to broadcast a far different show, but something had gone wrong. They had intended to air a show about the British ‘brain-drain’, about how British scientists were leaving the country to find higher-paying jobs abroad, but in the course of their investigation they discovered that many of the scientists they sought to interview weren’t just leaving the country. They appeared to be mysteriously disappearing from the face of the Earth itself.

The disappearance of these scientists prompted the news team to investigate further, and what they ultimately uncovered was a vast, global conspiracy reaching to the very highest levels of the American and Soviet governments. Apparently back in the 1950s researchers had learned that the Earth, on account of man’s actions, was facing an unstoppable environmental catastrophe which would result in the almost certain extinction of humanity itself. World governments were left with only three options. They were:

Alternative 1 —to drastically reduce the human population on Earth;

Alternative 2 —to construct vast underground shelters to house government officials until the crisis had stabilized;

Alternative 3 —to establish a “Noah’s Ark” colony of humanity’s best and brightest off of the planet, preferably on Mars.

The reality of the looming crisis had prompted high-level officials in the American and Soviet governments to collaborate in order to make Alternative 3 a reality.

Through interviews with supposed astronauts and scientists, the documentary pieced together evidence that supposedly revealed that the Soviets and Americans, working together, had reached Mars as early as 1961, that the Apollo Space Program had been nothing but a publicity decoy to conceal the true purpose behind NASA’s numerous rocket launches, and that scientists were now being abducted to work on Mars.

The stony-faced earnestness of the announcer apparently convinced many that the documentary was real because after the show’s conclusion Anglia TV was flooded with calls. If viewers had watched a little more closely, however, they would have seen that the copyright notice for the show was dated April 1—April Fool’s Day (even though the show wasn’t broadcast on April 1st).

A few were so convinced by the show that they refused to believe it wasn’t real, even after its producers announced that the entire thing had been a joke. These faithful few continue to insist that Alternative 3 is real, and that the show was part of the world government’s vast and sinister disinformation scheme. They argue that by making Alternative 3 appear to be a fanciful hoax, the world government has insured that no one will suspect that it is, in fact, the frightening truth. —museumofhoaxes.com

6. THE CUT-UP FILMS (1963-1972)
by William S. Burroughs
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html

Five seminal films by Burroughs in collaboration with Anthony Balch: William Buys a Parrot (1963), Towers Open Fire (1963), Ghost at n°9 (Paris) (1963-1972) Bill and Tony (1972) and The Cut-Ups (1966). You can also listen to audio by Burroughs and read his Electronic Revolution (1970). —UbuWeb

7. POPAGANDA: THE ART & CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH
(DivX AVI 498,790 kb)
http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/gettorrent.php?info_hash=ffc94934a3f9d7bfffbc63ce705c8d8408f48ad7

If you saw Super Size Me, then you probably marveled over the amazing artwork featuring a morbidly obese Ronald McDonald. If you weren’t already familiar with the work of Ron English, then that film made you want to be. Well, here you go, Pedro Carvajal brings you the Art and Subversion of Ron English.

“Popaganda” is an eye-opening journey through the life and career of this renegade artist. Starting out as one of the most infamous culture jammers, Ron English got his work out into the world by replacing paid advertisement billboards with his own art. Soon this grew into him altering billboard ads, twisting them around so that they actually spoke the truth. He would make it so Joe Camel would no longer be hustling cigarettes, but cancer instead and Ronald McDonald would be providing “better living through chemistry”. And then there’s the “Let’s Get Drunk and Kill God” billboard Ron did as a dare, risking being pummeled to death by a bunch of God-fearing drunkards with baseball bats in the process. It’s during this section of the film that we’re introduced to other notorious Culture Jammers, most notably The Billboard Liberation Front (as featured in the film Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture) and Shephard Fairey, the guy responsible for all those Andre the Giant “OBEY” logos all over Los Angeles. In talking about these people, Ron refers to them a couple of times as superheroes and in this film, they really do come off as such – like a guerilla artist Justice League or something
More @ Film Threat

8. BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS
(.AVI DivX- 772,298 kb)
http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/gettorrent.php?info_hash=b35469c7df0035f30c2f9be129984feded959897

Buk The engaging documentary ‘Born Into This’ peers beyond the myth of lovably cantankerous counter-culture author-hero Charles Bukowski.

“When you get the shit kicked out of you long enough…you’ll have the tendency to say what you really mean,” states Charles Bukowski in the engaging new documentary “Bukowski: Born Into This.” That terse observation hints at the brutality of Bukowski’s childhood, when his father would beat him with a razor strop. It also affords a context in which to view his famously stripped-down, no-nonsense literature, charged with autobiographical detail, an urgent, acerbic world-view and that balls-to-the-wall take on booze, sex, poverty and the daily grind.

The documentary marks the filmmaking debut of John Dullaghan. The former advertising copywriter felt such a kinship with Bukowski that he devoted seven years to making what is, at heart, a loving tribute to a writer, his craft and, above all, the idea of living and dying by one’s own creed. “Born Into This” manages to peer beyond the Bukowski Myth to arrive at something far more layered and fascinating. Indeed, the portrait that takes shape here is of a soul as much traumatized as toughened by abuse, loneliness and cruelty. More of this review at LA Alternative.

9. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (2002)
Arte France
(52 minutes, 14 seconds)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3288261061829859642&q=%22dark+side+of+the+moon%22

Did we land on the moon or not? A documentary exposes/explores this intriguing question....

10. MARTIAL LAW 9/11: Rise of the Police State

Alex Jones' Martial Law 9/11: Rise Of The Police State is now available on Google Video for completely free viewing and download.

Watch the whole movie here (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661&q=alex%2Bjones%2Bmartial%2Blaw&pl=true)
or download it from Internet Archive here (http://www.archive.org/details/MartialLaw911).

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Has anyone seen this yet?

2006-05-23T07:11:04Z

http://www.thecelestineprophecymovie.com

Based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

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Stealing Fire From the Gods

2006-05-16T05:13:59Z

I just finished reading James Bonnet's "Stealing Fire From the Gods."

The book is 20 years of his personal research into storytelling and is one of the most unique screenwriting books I've ever read because it's goal is to provide a totally different approach to writing rather than the typical "have a plot twist ever 30 pages" method.

The reason I'm mentioning it to this tribe in particular is that his approach really goes beyond the nuts and bolts and into the significance of storytelling from a much deeper level suggesting even that all our mythologies are inherent within us which is why since the beginning of storytelling, so many similar archetypes emerge. And this also leads to a reason why storytelling is so valuable.

He references Jungian theory and Campbell's work freely, but still provides his own very specific methodology.

It was not light reading, but was definitely rewarding and to this group in particular worth checking out at least.

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Ashes and Snow

2006-05-14T14:10:33Z

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/

I finally went to the "Ashes and Snow" exhibition today and it is indeed everything it was raved to be and more. I was so moved, I felt lumps rise in my throat a few times and some tears did trickle down my face at just the profound beauty and rareity of the life being recorded and allegorically portrayed, also felt the loving intention behind the work of the artist. I would have liked some unposed pictures as well, but I understood that this vision was a directed one with reverence to the people and the culture. I adore elephants so it really reached into me and the native people are also incredibly beautiful - other animals such as huge birds, leopords, monkeys and these amazing looking cats with huge ears.....also whales....my eyes and mind are still swimming with all the beauty and at the same time a sad aftertaste for what the "comfortable disease" of "progress" is stripping from the world. This exhibition and film seeks to celebrate and hold sacred the natural world and does so in a metaphysical and poetically spiritual way, all is in sepia brown and slow motion and the offering is a feast for all the senses. The music works quite well, blending indiginous elements with ambient layers.

"Beauty, beauty, how to keep it"....

Here's a review off the net:

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/03/03/ashes_snow.php
Ashes and Snow, we don't even know where to begin with this one, but we'll try...
Ashes and Snow is a new exhibit featuring more than 200 large-scale photographic works and an accompanying 35mm film by artist Gregory Colbert. The works reveal the artistic nature of animals as they interact with man. Sounds like a typical art exhibit, no?
Part of its charm, or rather intrigue, is that renowned architect Shigeru Ban designed a Nomadic Museum to house Ashes and Snow, making him the first to take on such and endeavor. The result is a 45,000 sq ft (that's totally like the same size as our 6th floor walkup apartment!) temporary structure, composed of mostly recyclable materials. The structure will be taken apart and reconstructed at different ports around the globe.

The opening of this show in New York is coinciding with the release of the artists novel, of which the exhibit is named after. Ah yes, a literary component to the art. Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters is a fictional account of a man who, over the course of a yearlong journey, composes 365 letters to his wife. The origin of the title [Ashes and Snow] is revealed in the 365th letter. Colberts photographs and one-hour film loosely reference the travelers encounters and experiences described in the letters.

Okay, so we have art, a film, a museum made of shipping containers and paper tubing, and a novel by the artist. In summary: screw the Gates, saffron is so last week, and head over to the next hot temporary art exhibition thingy. We don't even know what to call it. A fleeting extravaganza of stimuli, perhaps. We're especially excited to check this out after seeing the amazing images on the exhibits website.

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awesome job/educational oppurtunity for those aligned with the vibe of this tribe.

2006-05-12T00:31:00Z

Hey howdie!

I work at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY .. Omega calls itself a 'holistic education center' .. the specific work that I get to do is about shooting interviews of some very heavy hitters in the 'consciousness' field - from yogis to sufis to teachers who have found their own very individual yet very unified angle of operation in the exploration of life.

We shoot, edit, and are working to launch a website to offer this content to those who might magnatized to it.

It is an emersive oppurtunity to learn digital video production .. everything shot on XL2 Cameras and run through the Final Cut Pro 5 post-production environement. Its an amazing encounter to work intimately with some very awareness-provoking content. As staff at omega I also get to live on campus and smooze it with a group of creative, explorative, and interesting people who visit as participants and/or work as staff too.

Im spewing all this out because our department has some openings for full and part time folks for this season (now through the end of october). Ive been noting this in a bunch of different tribes, it looks like there could be some folks in here might be very interested in the work we do..

here's an 'official' link to 'official' information regarding the staff hiring here ..

http://www.eomega.org/omega/job/seasonal/

yeah, I know the website's a bit 'tired' .. dont let that dissuade you.. the video stuff is kick-ass.

im down to chat with anyone about it.. answer questions, flesh out the details ..

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New book: "Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology of Electronic Society"

2006-05-10T03:30:52Z

Hello,
I'm new to this tribe. I just thought I would open up by shamelessly promoting my recent book "Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology of Electronic Society." The book looks at films of the past three decades beginning with 2001: A Space Odyssey and working on up through Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and many others in which the theme of technology as a modern myth is explored. The book examines these films as nightmares which are society is having about its machines, showing how our psyches are struggling to find humanity in the new hyper-mechanized environment which the advent of the machine since the Renaissance has constructed around us. I worked as a scholar for The Joseph Campbell Foundation for five years and mythology is my particular field of study.
You can check out my website at: cinemadiscourse.com, where you can order the book, or else you can go to Amazon and type in the book's title. Also, you can hear an interview with me at: lauralee.com.
If anyone has any feedback on the interview or on some of the sample chapters on my website, please feel free to post a message letting me know how you feel.
Thanks,
John David Ebert

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Altered States

2006-03-11T22:43:18Z

So I rented four movies for research including Altered States which I hadn't seen since it came out. Worth watching again. I didn't realize how many similarities the script I am working on actually has to the film. Anyway, the whole Mexican mushroom sequence really spoke to me as a kid. Some cool concepts, although not fully realized. Check it out if you haven't already.

Peace,
Andrew

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Hero by Zhang Yimou

2006-03-09T20:47:43Z

I just saw "Hero".....wow....phenomenal....breathtaking!

Anyone else seen it? This is a film that qualifies as "Cosmicinema" in my mind. Who else agrees?

The synopsis below doesn't really do it justice. The poetry, sublime tonality and symbolism, economy of expression and frequently omnipresent perspective of the piece are nothing less than mesmerizing and soul tickling. It's much more than a sword fighting extravaganza, it's a philosophical piece showing the paradoxical relationship between enemy and hero, that indeed they can be one and the same. I shall not explain what I mean by that...just see the film if you haven't. I'm not one to luxuriate in the glorifying or aesthetic enhancement of violence but this film takes it to another level, a cosmic one, for lack of a better way of putting it. The fight scenes, the sword plunges and words spoken or not upon receiving mortal wounds are emblematic and bespeak of larger principals in an ancient Chinese way. The austerity of expression and streamlined discipline of gesture only increases the potency of the raw emotions or profound implications underlying words and actions. I found myself put into the most exquisite of hypnogogic states, one in which many feelings and realizations fleeted through in natural ways. It's a film that does not insult ones intelligence or forcefeed emotional response. It sort of leaves you to your own process, though I will say that it's non-stop beauty is indoctrinating, though I have no complaint on that score.

REVIEW
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/reviews/hero.html

HERO
Running time: 96 mins
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Dao Ming, Donnie Yen

By simply referring to Hero as a martial arts film would be to reduce it to its most elemental state. It would not convey the film's stunning visual beauty, its balletic grace or philosophical weight. As befits a film dealing with codes of behaviour and honor in ancient China, Hero is a spacious work of quiet strength, filled with an imperious dignity bestowed on it by highly acclaimed director Zhang Zimou.

That a subtitled film should top the US box office is almost as surprising as the fact that it took so long to reach American audiences. In the two years since Hero (or Ying Xiong to give it its proper title) was first released, it has become China's top grossing film of all time and along the way picked up numerous awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. Following its huge success in Asia, the film was picked up by Miramax, but never found a release. It was only after the film gained almost cult-like status as a result of imported DVD copies, and Quentin Tarantino added his endorsement, that it finally reached the cineplexes.

Within minutes it's clear why Hero, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon before it, has transcended the normally limiting confines of its genre. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, its rich palette and scale are intoxicating. The fight sequences are stylized and choreographed as much for their elegance as their excitement. Set in mystical landscapes of lakes and red leaved forests, they play with time and gravity, slowing duels down, freezing moments and lunging combatants effortlessly through air. There is none of the blood and gore traditionally associated with martial arts films, instead the violence is implicit rather than explicit.

SYNOPSIS
http://www.heromovie.org/

HERO is based on events in China during the 3rd century BC.

From 475 – 221 BC, the land was divided into seven major Kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. Named ‘The Warring States Period’ because of the power struggle between the Kingdoms, this was a time of endless brutal wars and much hardship and suffering.

The King of Qin (Qinshihuang)was most ruthless and ambitious of all. Historically chronicled as a brutal tyrant, the Qinshihuang was determined to conquer and control all of the states. Throughout history, there have been stories of how assassins from all over China plotted to kill Qinshihuang. HERO is one of these stories.

Set in China during the "warring states period", when the land was divided into seven kingdoms, the film focuses on the King of Qin (Chen), the man most determined to unite and rule all of China.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104209

Martial arts epic from premiere Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. Asian superstars Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Donnie Yen act out a Rashomon-style story set in the 3rd century BC

After three low-key contemporary films - Keep Cool (1997), the Venice-winning Not One Less (1999) and The Road Home (1999) - China's pre-eminent filmmaker Zhang Yimou returns to period filmmaking with a bang.

Shot on an unprecedented (for Chinese cinema) $31 million budget, Hero (Ying Xiong) is like the Asian Ocean's Eleven, with a cast that includes martial arts maestros Jet Li and Donnie Yen, and In The Mood For Love's Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. On its domestic release it became China's biggest box-office hit ever (even beating Titanic).

Hero is an epic that attempts to exploit the current thirst for Asian films, following the worldwide success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

With a structure based on flashback and differing perpsectives, the plot sees the King hold an audience with the enigmatic Nameless (Li), a low-ranking county sheriff who has come to claim his prize for killing three legendary assassins - Broken Sword (Leung), Flying Snow (Cheung) and Sky (Yen). As the King listens curiously, a tale of lies, jealousy and love unfolds before him, though whether it is subterfuge on the part of Nameless becomes the key point to the film.

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from "Hypnosis and Film Mythology"

2006-03-03T07:38:00Z

Topic in alt.hypnotherapy

July 1, 2003 Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis Meeting

Richard Dance, MA, Philosophy & Religion, CHt, has a private counseling
and hypnotherapy practice, and his philosophical counseling work has
been published in Lou Marinoff's worldwide bestseller Plato Not Prozac.
Richard is a member of the adjunct faculty of Prescott College’s Master
of Arts Program in the Humanities. He is also director of the Mindful
Medicine Center and author of four books: The Education of Adam Speaker:
A Philosophical Adventure; Mindful Essays, Vol. 1: Myth, Religion &
Worldview; Mindful Essays Vol. 2: Spiritual Growth & Self-Discovery; and
Quest Mythology in Film: Understanding the Hero’s Journey. Richard’s
website is http://www.mindfulmedicine.com.

Since he is a newly trained hypnotherapist, Richard said it is only
recently that he has discovered the connection between the use of
hypnosis and hypnotherapy for understanding the mythology or "legendary
narratives that present parts of the beliefs of people or explain a
practice or natural phenomenon."

Films, like other art forms (fiction, poetry, the visual and plastic
arts, theater, dance, etc.), depict a mythical journey or story.

Picasso defined art as "the lie that tells the truth."
Mythology—legendary stories of gods and goddesses are actually his- and
her-story. These fictive narratives produced as works of art give us a
window for opening to the true "story of ourselves," on our soul’s
journey. Through hypnotherapy, we can dive into the depths of
unconsciousness to face our own conflicts or demons and return with "new
eyes" or self-understanding.

Myths deal with "imaginary" gods or heroes. If those heroes are the self
on its life journey and the therapist connects the obstacles and
conflicts encountered by that self--allowing the client to see these
encounters, adventures or experiences within a universal archetypical
frame--often it is possible for the client to resolve and integrate
those conflicts by coming to a deeper self-understanding
and-appreciation. [In hypnotherapy, this process is often called "source
integration" or "self-actualization." Often the process leads to
transformative experiences referred to as "rebirth."]

Citing the connection between dreams, films or fictive works and the
unconscious mind, where we store our memories and programs, Richard
emphasized the mythical theme of the "Hero’s Journey" or "The Quest" as
a specific area of exploration that can lead to healing. For example,
"The Quest" is used often in hypnotherapy as clients find themselveds in
the "initiatory" stages of moving through a series of self-created
conflicts or obstacles in order to arrive at their destiny… the full
cycle of the soul’s journey from birth to death.

The mythic quest starts with departure, enters the initiatory stage [the
unknown, or "road of trials"], and completes the cycle with the return
[resolution, integration].

Learning curves or experiences are the story line. We break the membrane
of the physical or conscious realm and penetrate the liminal space
[subliminal] or limbo, to enter into the world’s archetypical dreams.
Here we find the common threads of myth running through every culture
from the beginning of time. In the film world, it is this mythology that
helps us to integrate our experiences and understand them in universal
terms.

Modern movie theaters are our "temples" where we re-enact a myth in a
temple environment. Embedded in the film are Perennial Philosophy and
depth psychology, both of which illuminate our own soul’s journey.

"Philosophia Perennis--the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the
thing--the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to
the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in
the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality;
the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent
and transcendent Ground of all being--the thing is immemorial and
universal."

--Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1944 [From Perennial
Tradition: Overview Of The Secret Heritage, The Single Stream Of
Initiatory Teaching Flowing Through All The Great Schools Of Mysticism,
by Norman D. Livergood, soon to be released by Dandelion Books].

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"The Anchoress" (1993; 108 min.) by Chris Newby

2006-02-22T08:33:55Z

This rare gem of a film follows the fate of a young beautific woman in a 14th century nondescript European village who becomes an "achoress" after confessing a relationship with the Holy Virgin Mary to a local priest. The anchoress (or anchorite when male) is someone granted exalted status by the Church as a kind of seer and intermediary between God and the common folk.

She is holed up in a small cell for her remaining years where she is brought food, water and a stream of visits by the villagers who each share their woes and sins, fantasies and prayers, and otherwise demanding from the anchoress wisdom and redemption. The anchoress is also the pride of the clergy who claim propriety over her.

Besides the astonishing story itself, the lush black & white cinematography brings to mind early Bergman or Dreyer with such highly imaginative editing (mostly cuts) it required no special effects. The film's soundtrack is made up of multi-leveled natural sounds and is without music except for two or three moments where a Bulgarian women's chorus sings the same refrain of a folk song. Not a word is spken until fifteen minutes into the film and after that, the dialogue is sparce with most of the story shownin actions, tableaus and artfully placed extreme close-ups.

Thanks to its recent release on dvd, I saw ANCHORESS the other night with fifteen friends and we all ended up talking for hours after the screening at my home. It's a hidden masterpiece of a film and worth finding and viewing over and over, again.

-sherpa

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February west coast tour of my film about the poet Rilke

2006-02-08T03:11:09Z

"THE GREATER CIRCULATION" (2005; 93 min., USA) a cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's epic lament "Requiem For a Friend" (as translated by Stephen Mitchell).

I'm a filmmaker into dreams. This is my sixth feature fiction that I have directed and written the screenplay for. I am also featured as the voiceover of the poet Rilke. The film explores the power of dreams to inspire and scare the living daylights back into us. Dreams and how they act on our conscious waking lives has always fascinated me, especially those influences that carry on from the dream world into the creation of art, poetry and cinema. In my own dreams, I have been shown how the only art that comes from "conscious mind" is dead art. My aim in making films is to bring something of what dreams have shown me back into the world of people. You can see an example of what I mean at this clip:

http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html

Feb. 9, Oakland
Feb. 12, Sacramento
Feb. 13, Nevada City
Feb. 19, Port Townsend WA
Feb. 22, Seattle
Feb. 24, Portland

VENUE and SCHEDULE INFO at:
http://www.verticalpool.com/tgcshows.html

this film reviewed at:
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8150

Movie site: http://www.verticalpool.com/tgc.html

-sherpa
(aka Antero Alli)

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Yes, by Sally Potter

2006-01-28T19:22:52Z

Holy Shakespeare, Batman!

Just saw this film tonight. Has anyone else seen this mystic poet film, or others by Sally? She even composed the trippy soundtrack for this one. What passion for the human experience!

"And, in the end, it simply isn't worth / Your while to try and clean your life away. / You can't. For, everything you do or say / Is there, forever. It leaves evidence. / In fact it's really only common sense; / There's no such thing as nothing, not at all. / It may be really very, very small / But it's still there. In fact I think I'd guess / That "no" does not exist. There's only "yes"."

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Spiritual Film Fest: DAMAH

2006-01-27T22:39:09Z

Just got this from Without A Box:

In the Spotlight this weekend is the DAMAH FILM FESTIVAL-SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
IN FILM. Started 5 years ago, Damah is a unique festival that celebrates the
spiritual dimension of life through the art of the short film and the parable.
A great networking opportunity with like-minded filmmakers, Damah presents a
forum for those filmmakers to develop, discuss, and display their vision, as well
as offering distribution opportunities and prize money.

Damah provides a cash award to The Best of Show of $1000, as well as awards for
films of different lengths. Damah also has notable jury members who
participate in panels and workshops - like Scott Derrickson ("Exorcism of Emily Rose"),
Ralph Winter ("X Men," "Fantastic Four"), Tom Shadyac ("Bruce Almighty"), and
Jan Batchler ("Batman Forever").

Located in Los Angeles, in the culturally rich district of Culver City, the
festival is held on the site of the set location for the classics "Gone With The
Wind" and "Wizard of Oz", where parties are hosted throughout the weekend and
films are shown at three screening venues within walking distance of one another.

If the spirit moves you, submit to Damah. Read on for details and next week's
deadline...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Damah Film Festival-Spiritual Experiences in Film

WHERE IS IT
Los Angeles, CA

WHEN IS IT
May 18 to 21, 2006

UPCOMING DEADLINE
February 3, 2006 - Late Deadline
Upgraded projects save $5 off this deadline

HOW TO APPLY
Log into your Withoutabox account and look for Damah Film Festival-Spiritual
Experiences in Film in the pulldown menu on your Account Home Page.

MISSION & OBJECTIVE
Damah explores the spiritual dimension of life through the art of the short
film. The festival encourages an emerging generation of filmmakers from diverse
perspectives to voice the spiritual aspect of the human experience through film
and provides a forum for these artists to develop, discuss, and display their
vision. Damah is a non-profit organization that relies on submissions,
contributions, and the goodwill of many diverse communities.

ABOUT THE EVENT
Damah (dÃ¹ mahâ€™)[1] noun. Hebrew 1. a metaphor that transforms. 2. an art
form that starts with a commonly accepted way of looking at the world and adds a
surprise or unexpected twist that results in a new perspective that inspires and
transforms the viewer. 3. the merging of the known, the unknown and the
transcendent. 4. similar to the storytelling form known as the parable.

In January, 2001, a group of individuals came together with to create an event
during which a wide spectrum of spiritual backgrounds could come together to
form a community. Thus, In Seattle, WA, Damah was born - an event where ideas,
thoughts and perspectives on the spiritual aspect of life are explored through
the art of the short film.

Each year the festival grows, and assembles an impressive showcase of
spiritually minded filmmakers over a wonderful weekend filled with unique events that
foster a true sense of community. Past events have featured Panel Discussions,
Workshops, Interactive Screenings, and Q&As, all designed to stimulate discussion
and provide a platform for spiritual expression. The festival features films
from any genre and they can be submitted in any acquisition format. The only
requirement is that submitted films be no longer than 30 minutes.

If you've made a film that highlights spirituality, this is an excellent
opportunity to plug in to like minded artists, take home some prize money and perhaps
even pick up distribution.

______________________________________________

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Sugar and Spice

2006-01-11T06:30:49Z

I know it's not Cinemacosmiconsciousness, or anything else but lowbrow comedy, but comedy can be so cathartic.

from imdb.com

Plot Summary for
Sugar & Spice (2001)
Jack (James Marsden) and Diane (Marley Shelton) were lovers, two crazy kids living in the heartlands (Gee, and John Mellencamp didn't get any writing or soundtrack credits). Diane is the airheaded captain of the cheerleading squad, who follows her through whatever she does. Jack is, of course, the football team's star quarterback. Diane comes up pregnant and the two are thrown out of their homes. They move into an apartment, where they try to live on Jack's part-time salary as a clerk at a video store. Meanwhile both continue in school - cheerleading & quarterbacking. As Diane realizes that they are not making it financially, she recruits the other cheerleaders (Mena Suvari, Rachel Blanchard, Melissa George, & Sara Marsh) to help her rob a bank. Their cheerleader oath of all for one commits them to helping her. They get guns from a local hood (W. Earl Brown), who gives them the weapons in exchange for putting his homely daughter (Alexandra Holden) on the cheerleading squad.

Summary written by John Sacksteder {jsackste@bellsouth.net}

After Diane Weston, the popular head cheerleader of Lincoln High School's A-squad, becomes pregnant by the star football quarterback Jack Bartlett, Diane and her four cheerleader teammates, Kansas, Cleo, Lucy, Hannah, as well as newcomer Fern, plan the perfect bank robbery to support her and Jack after their parents financially cut them off. But neither Diane nor her friends expect their bitter rival Lisa, the head cheerleader of Lincoln's B-squad, to suspect them with their plan.

Summary written by {pataygs@voicenet.com}

and if you love Sugar and Spice, you will love

Plot Summary for
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000) (V)
Another spoof of the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer horror gene involving a group of popular high school students stalked by a bumbling masked killer while a dogged reporter named Hagitha Utslay covers the story and of the plight of the prime suspect and transfer student Dawson

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scaredsacred

2006-01-05T11:57:04Z

http://www.scaredsacred.org/trailer.php

SYNOPSIS | ScaredSacred
In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history.

Ripper travels to the minefields of Cambodia; war-torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post-9/11 New York; Bosnia; Hiroshima; Israel and Palestine. This powerful documentary captures his five-year odyssey to discover if humanity can transform the 'scared' into the 'sacred'.

Deep in the jungles of Cambodia, Ripper meets Aki Ra, a child soldier forced to lay landmines for the Khmer Rouge. Today Aki wanders his ravaged country with a simple wooden stick, decommissioning thousands of mines each year. In the shattered land of Afghanistan, Ripper searches for a Sufi musician who was banned from performing or even listening to music, by the reign of fundamentalism. The musician discovered a way out: he filled his house with songbirds. In each Ground Zero, he unearths unforgettable stories of survival, of ritual, resilience and recovery.

ScaredSacred deftly weaves together stunning footage with haunting memories, inspirational stories, and an evocative soundscape. Featuring an engaging, first-person narrative, this film is an exquisite portrait of a search for meaning in times of turmoil, a luminous gift to a world in shadows.

Burlington, VT Oct 13 - 16 - 16th Annual Vermont International Film Festival The world's oldest human rights and environmental film festival.

One Main St., Suite 307
Burlington, VT 05401
USA
Phone: 802 660 2600
Fax: 802 860 9555
www.vtiff.org

THE GROUND ZERO AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
ScaredSacred is now playing at Cinemark Tinseltown, opening at the Park Theatre on Wednesday Sept. 21st.

Opening Sept. 21st:
Park Theatre
3440 Cambie St.
Call for information: 604-876-2747

Inspired by the vision and message of ScaredSacred, a grassroots campaign has been launched to raise awareness about the Ground Zeros that scar our world. The Ground Zero Awareness Campaign will coincide with the film's opening weekend September 9th - 11th in Vancouver, BC, Canada around showings of ScaredSacred.

The Ground Zero Awareness Campaign was initiated to expand on the issues and themes in the film and bring attention to all areas at the centre of violence, war and disaster. The emphasis of the campaign is to harness the power of crisis to create positive transformation, using tragedy as a catalyst for change. Speakers from relevant organizations, individuals touched directly by the issues, and the filmmaker himself will be brought together to share their experiences and stories. A special focus will be placed on the Ground Zeros visited in the film.

The campaign will feature keynote speeches from Vancouver City Councillor Jim Green, writer Joy Kogawa and many others, as well as performances by Poets Against War. A "Ground Zero Information Centre" will showcase representatives and displays from supporting organizations such as Amnesty International, War Resisters Support Campaign, Greenpeace, Vancouver Chapter of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), InterSpiritual Centre of Vancouver, Multifaith Action Society, Vancouver Raging Grannies, and Veterans Against Nuclear Arms (VANA). Events will be held at Cinemark Tinseltown, around showings of the film over its opening weekend, September 9th to 11th. Audience members will be treated to Q & A's with the filmmaker and guest speakers.

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The Double life of Veronique

2005-12-08T17:17:26Z

When "The double life of Veronique" came out in the 90's I saw it with this extraordinary woman I knew in NYC named Veronica. We had an artistic friendship and the film struck a chord with us both as we discovered that we shared this spooky feeling that we each had a doppleganger out there in the world living perhaps the other life we had not chosen.

The double life is about two identical looking women living completely different lives simultaneously. If you have not seen it then I won't spoil it for you by telling you too much but below is a little about it that also doesn't give away much. All I will say is that it is almost unbearably beautiful in every way...visually, in story, theme, meaning and feeling. I was spellbound and didn't want it to end and it stirred all kinds of tears. At one point, I was balling out loud but in the most satisfyingly sad of ways. I know, I sound a tad perverse to find crying delicious, but when it hits the right depth, it's incredibly releasing. I rate this film as cosmic and yet very, human. It has a fragile quality that is very hard to describe.

I'd love to hear other people's insights on this film and I'll say more about it later...

Bella

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from The Double Life of Veronique)
The Double Life of Véronique

Produced by Leonardo De La Fuente
Directed by Krzysztof Kie?lowski
Written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Krzysztof Kie?lowski
Starring Irène Jacob
Music by Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography S?awomir Idziak
Editing Jacques Witta
Distributed by Miramax (USA)
Release date May 15, 1991
Runtime 98 min.
Language French / Polish
IMDb Page

La Double vie de Véronique ("The Double Life of Véronique"; Polish title, "Podwójne ?ycie Weroniki") is a 1991 French- and Polish-language film directed by Krzysztof Kie?lowski, co-written by Kie?lowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, starring Irène Jacob, with music by Zbigniew Preisner.
The film was a departure from Kie?lowski's earlier work in several ways. It was his first film produced partly outside Poland, and the parts taking place within Poland contain little reference to the social turmoil of the time; a pivotal scene taking place in the midst of a political protest is seen only through the eyes of a tourist on a bus. It has a strong fantasy element, though the supernatural aspect of the story is never explained. Like the later Three Colors: Blue, it showcased Preisner's musical score as a major plot element, crediting his work to the fictional van den Budenmayer. Finally, its cinematography is highly stylized, using color and camera filters to create an ethereal atmosphere; the cinematographer, S?awomir Idziak, had previously experimented with these techniques in one episode of The Decalogue, and Kie?lowski would later use color for a wider range of effects in his Three Colors trilogy.
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polaroid movie breadcrumbs of life

2005-12-03T03:13:47Z

Hey cosmi peeps,

thought you might enjoy the music video done by Daniel Askill for Tina Dico, Zero 7's singer (her voice is so delicious!). Though, it's not necessarily cosmic...the concept and execution is artistic, voyeuristic and existential.

Using polaroids, the story of a woman's pain-numbed state of mind is eloquently out-pictured...literally. Also, the intercutting of polaroids scattered upon floors and staircases on her journey bespeaks of the breadcrumb trail of moments left arbitrarily behind only to be picked up again in the form of memories. It's also interesting that she is running the movie, so to speak by tossing the polaroids one by one...

Go to url below and click on "Sia, breathe me" to see one I'm talkin'bout. There is more work by the director Daniel Askil as well, quite cool actually. The piece entitled "We have decided not to die" is kind of cosmic albeit in a modernist way.

http://www.radicalmedia.com/reels/reel.php?id=50&format=qt&bw=hi&spot=4

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LEOLO

2005-11-24T03:04:36Z

http://www.1worldfilms.com/leolo.htm

I just saw this amazing film for the second time and was blown away by its powerful emotional honesty, its outrageous imagination and its persistent compassion for its difficult characters and their trying fates. Besides one scene definitely not for the faint of heart (the panting cat scene), I was totally smitten with this entire movie.

Recently made available on dvd, LEOLO should not be missed by anyone searching for a magnanimous film experience that will probably push the envelope of your perceptions of family, sexuality, morality, violence, love, mental illness, brotherhood, and poetic narrative.

I call this film "visionary" for its brilliantly unexpected juxtapositions of ideas, emotions and gorgeous cinema. The entire film weaves in and out of a chain of imaginal dream-like sequences exemplifying a young boy's true feelings and insights about the people and the life he was born into and cannot escape except through his highly inventive and often hilarious imagination.

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film review: The Passenger

2005-11-20T01:40:48Z

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/reviews/documents/05079724.asp

Bon voyage
Antonioni’s The Passenger sets off again
BY JEFFREY GANTZ

"What’s on the other side of that window?" That’s the question Locke (Jack Nicholson) asks Robertson (Chuck Mulvehill) near the beginning of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 MGM film The Passenger, which is getting a 30th-anniversary re-release, in its uncut European version, this week. And he’s not talking about the window of the hotel room in the small, revolution-torn African country (Chad?) where he and his fellow Englishman are sharing a drink. He’s asking what’s on the other side of life. The Passenger describes his attempt to find out.

Locke’s own life is a mess: he has a job, investigative reporting, that he’s not very good at (as we see in moviola flashbacks when he tries to interview the country’s head of state and a witch doctor) and a wife (Jenny Runacre) back in London who has a lover. So when he finds Robertson dead, of an apparent heart attack, he switches passports. His new identity’s airline tickets take him to London, where he pays a final visit to his flat, and then Munich, where he discovers that Robertson’s business is obtaining guns for the rebels. On to Barcelona, where he fails to reconnect with the rebels but does hook up with a Girl (Maria Schneider) who encourages him to carry on with his new life. They make their way down the Costa del Sol to Osuna and Robertson’s final appointment, which proves final for Locke. Or is it?

Locke is, like all of us, the passenger of the title; what he doesn’t know is his destination or the identity of his driver/pilot, assuming there is one. His physical vehicles — a Land Rover and a white convertible — break down; Antonioni’s camera keeps wandering away from him, trying to show him where and how to look, how to be the protagonist of the film. Starting with the crucified pose he assumes against his deceased Land Rover, his journey is a passion through stations of the cross, a vita nuova guided by a Beatrice who’s more like Mary Magdalene; the Gloria of a saint in the church in Munich leads to the Hotel de la Gloria in Osuna. His first impulse is to hide. "People disappear every day," the Girl tells him in Gaudí’s Palau Güell. "Every time they leave the room," he replies.

The room, however, isn’t so easy to leave. Time and space keep collapsing (if Antonioni were a painter, he’d be Giorgio Morandi), and though Locke eventually leaves the green world of European civilization and returns to the desert, this time in southern Spain, Rachel, having spotted Robertson’s photo in her husband’s passport, follows, bringing his old life and "the same old codes" after him. By keeping Robertson’s last appointment, he’s taken himself, and us, as far as he can, but Antonioni’s camera takes us farther, squeezing through the iron bars of the Hotel de la Gloria window like a human soul, out into the freedom of the plaza and the sea and the sky beyond, then turning to look back at Locke’s body on the bed and hear Rachel say, "I never knew him," and the Girl say she did. Night falls; the Hotel de la Gloria lights up, and the background music (in a film that has hardly any) recalls the end of Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo, another film with a Girl. A man and a woman — the hotel proprietors? — argue in the doorway; he walks out of the frame, she sits down to wait. Antonioni’s camera just watches, wondering what we’ve learned.

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filmthreat.com review of my new feature

2005-11-19T22:44:41Z

http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=8150

"The Greater Circulation" is a flm about poet Rainer Maria Rilke's process of writing his lyrical lament "Requiem For a Friend" as a tribute to his good friend, the painter Paula Modersohn Becker, who died unexpectedly after childbirth. The drama pivots around the central conflict of women artists torn between wanting to have children and wanting to excel in the art. Though some women manage to do both, many who attempt the dual task manifest tragic results.

There is a clip of one of Rilke's dreams at:
http://fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html

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links to great visionary films

2005-11-19T07:05:36Z

http://www.verticalpool.com/greatfilms.html

The above link goes to a list of the greatest visionary films I have seen so far. I am using the term "visionary" in both the narrow and the broad sense and so, some of these films may not seem visionary at first. They are also not in any particular order and each title is a hyperlink to more information about that film.

Perhaps the list can be used to inspire discussion ?

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article: Enlightening Cinema

2005-11-17T22:12:04Z

http://www.forum-video.com/enlightening-cinema.asp

Enlightening Cinema
by Jed McKenna

"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind — driving you mad." -Morpheus, The Matrix

This isn't a movie review list and it's not comprehensive. It's just some notes about a few movies I think are useful for the purposes of awakening and why, or that aren't and why not. With tools of understanding, bad is often better than good.

Major themes represented on this list seem to be these:

- Heresy
- Captive/Captor
- Teacher/Student
- Nature of self/man.
- Death/rebirth. Cataclysm/epiphany.
- Untrustworthiness of mind/memories.

The only thing I might advise with regard to movies and books is to raise the material up to the level where it becomes of value to you. Orwell might have been writing an anti-communist manifesto, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is much more interesting viewed as the struggle between man and his confinement. Apocalypse Now is about something more than Viet Nam, How to Get Ahead In Advertising is about something more than rampant commercialism, etc.

::: American Beauty

"I feel like I've been in a coma for the past
twenty years. And I'm just now waking up."

I've included American Beauty mainly for what's wrong with it. Lester's major death/rebirth transition shows promise, but what does he transition to? Backward to teenage crap, not forward in any sense. A fear-based regression. Stupid car, stupid drugs, stupid vanity, stupid skirt chasing. Not at all redeemed when Lester sees his own folly near the end or by sappy/smarmy dead guy voice-over.

The movie is slightly redeemed by the presence of the quasi-mystical neighbor kid and his video footage of a windblown bag:

"That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever."

::: Apocalypse Now

"In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action — what is often called ruthless — what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it."

You'd think that Apocalypse Now Redux, the director's cut, would be the version to watch, but all the stuff that was rightly cut from the original has been wrongly replaced. (Raising the interesting point that directors and authors often don't understand the higher applications of the stories they're telling.) Stick with the original over both Redux and Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Apocalypse Now is all about the Horror. A journey of discovery, into the heart of darkness, arriving at this horror. What's the horror? How do you get there? Why would anyone make such a journey? Should you make such a journey? Why or why not?

Note the powerful epiphanies that drive the film. The first assassin's letter home, ("Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids..."), Dennis Hopper's youthful exuberance, Kurtz's diamond bullet, Willard's "...I wasn't even in their army any more."

::: Being There

"Spring, summer, autumn, winter... then spring again."

A lovely film ruined by a foolish walking-on-water stunt tacked on to the end. Without that nonsense the viewer would be free to think, to decide, to wonder. Instead, the movie zips itself up tight with its clever little dumb-it-down twist. Hit the stop button when Chauncey is straightening the sapling, before the ruinous denouement, and it's a fun, lovely film.

::: Blade Runner

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."

Were you born five minutes ago? Of course not, and you have the memories to prove it. You'd know if they were artificial implants, because, uh...

::: Cast Away

"I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing."

If a man screams on a deserted island and there's no one to hear him, does he make a sound? Is it enough that he hears it himself? What if not? What's left when you take away everything?

Self stripped bare.

This movie raises many intriguing questions about the substance of self, or lack thereof, and includes a very Zen eulogy.

::: Dead Poets Society

Heresy.

::: Harold and Maude

"Vice, virtue. It's best not to be too moral... Aim above morality."

American Zen, master and disciple.

::: Harvey

"For years I was smart... I recommend pleasant."

Elwood P. Dowd, wisefool. A sweet depiction of a higher order of being misinterpreted as a lower order of being. Would we know the Superior Man when we saw him?

::: How to Get Ahead In Advertising

"Everything I do now makes perfect sense."

A thwarted bid for freedom. A failed attempt to overthrow Maya. Enjoy the insanity of the epiphany.

::: Joe vs the Volcano

"Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and
we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?"

Death and Rebirth. Unlike American Beauty, this is all about moving forward, "away from the things of man."

::: Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)

Watch especially for the visual poem of a man crumbling a human brain into a sink while looking for the soul.

::: The Matrix

"Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind."

Plato's Cave for the people. As allegorically lucid as Joe vs Vocano, Pleasantville and Star Wars.

::: Monty Python's Life of Brian

"No, no! It is a sign that, like Him, we must think not
of the things of the body, but of the face and head!"

Sacred Cow-tipping at its best.

"Meaning of Life" also belongs on this list.

::: Nineteen Eighty-Four

"If you want a vision of the future, Winston,
imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

This movie is unique in the sense that it's as good as the book, which is an extremely intimate portrait of the captor/captive, Maya/man relationship. Compare this to Moby-Dick or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which are superb books but useless movies.

::: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

As with Moby-Dick, Hollywood castrated the book. They stripped it of its archetypal dimensions and reduced it to a meaningless pissing match between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. Great entertainment, but for meaningful insight, read the book.

::: Pleasantville

"There are some places where the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where it keeps on going."

A cheerful tale of heresy in which no one is burned at the stake and the new paradigm is, eventually, embraced by all.

::: The Razor's Edge

"The dead look so terribly dead."

The razor's edge is what makes it interesting; seeing Larry shakily balanced on the fine line between what he was and what he's becoming. He is walking the edge between two lives. The Bill Murray version is a bit unfocused... stick with Tyrone Power or read the book.

Maugham supposedly used Ramana Maharshi as the model for the novel's holy man.

::: Star Wars

"The force will be with you, always."

The first one, where Luke makes the transition from flesh to spirit.

The Hero's Journey.

::: The Thin Red Line

"Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man."

A sublime inquiry into the spiritual nature of man. More a sad/sweet song than a narrative film.

::: The Thirteenth Floor

"So what're you saying? You're saying
that there's another world on top of this one?"

Layer after layer. Turtles on top of turtles.

::: Vanilla Sky/Abre Los Ojos

"Open your eyes."

If you like Vanilla Sky, check out the original, the Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). These two films may be the best of the bunch for our purposes; the closest to an enlightenment allegory.

Of course, the interesting thing about enlightenment is getting there, not being there, and that's what these films are about; awakening from a false reality, opening your eyes. They're not so much about what's real as what's not.

It's the story of the journey one takes to get to the place where anything, even jumping off a tall building, would be better than continuing to live a lie, even a beautiful, blissful lie.

Note the presence of the true guru, explaining in clear terms why leaping off the building is the best thing to do, and waiting patiently for it to be done.

::: Waking Life

"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

Wide-ranging philosophical inquiry. Provocative. Amusing. Potentially disruptive.

::: Wings of Desire

"When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin and where does space end?"

A lovely, intelligent, thought-provoking film. Can the awakened being return to the dreamstate? Would he want to?

::: Others

Some other films that reward thoughtful viewing are The Wizard of Oz, About Schmidt, What Dreams May Come, Total Recall, All the Mornings Of the World (Tous les Matins du Monde), and, of course, many more.

-Jed McKenna

About the Author
Jed McKenna is the author of "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing" and "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment", published by Wisefool Press. Coming in 2005: "Spirituality X" and "Jed McKenna's Notebook". Visit WisefoolPress.com to learn more

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audience perspective

2005-11-04T23:25:10Z

Hey Cinema folk,

I have been thinking about my role in this tribe, since I do not create cinema. Movies have always been an important enhancement of my life. I especially enjoy films that promote serious messages, but are so well made that I don't even notice the message consciously. Rather, it slips into my mind like a post-hypnotic suggestion while I marvel at the beauty of the film.

So, cinemacosmiconsciousness. Bring it on.

Peace,
libramoon

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film trailer: Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams

2005-10-22T20:31:37Z

http://www.worklessparty.org/

Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams - The Movie
Contributed by ben west

New Documentary film
Find out how working less can save the world!

The craziest, wildest adventure into BC politics. This new documentary film takes a behind-the-scenes look into the most peculiar campaign to seize control of the BC legislature.Crazy wild parties, grass roots activism and some of the most mind boggling media stunts yet known to mankind.

Just when you thought that it was safe to be a politician.....

Starring:

the Work Less Party, the Raytheon Corporation, a UPS delivery man, 100 naked cyclists, and virtually everybody who lives on Commercial Drive. (Not kidding - If you live on the drive you are probably in it.)

The World Premier of 'Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams' will be Thursday 10th November. The director, Ben West as well as an all star ensemble circus will be in attendance at the Van East Theatre (2290 Commercial Dr. at 7th ave.)Show time 8pm.

Tickets sliding scale $5 -> $10. Nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds.

To download the windows version of the trailer(6.9meg), click here. http://www.worklessparty.org/movies/smaller_alarm_clock.wmv

To download the Quick Time trailer(30 meg), click here. http://www.worklessparty.org/movies/alarm%20clocks%20kill%20dreams.mpg

contact d@worklessparty.org

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Helping each other

2005-10-06T00:57:09Z

Hey all,

I guess it's time to put out the idea of building a sort of community contact and resources list for the bounty of talented and connected people in this tribe. I know that we all have talents and other things to offer and share ranging from abilities, to projects, ideas, know how, equipment, to connections to just sheer energy!

It was my intention when starting this tribe to see if a community of like minded creatives with imagination and talent could germinate something together. It takes a little time but mostly vision, passion and resources to make things manifest.

I'll start then..I suggest that whoever wants just state their main area of expertise or interest, what practical talents they can or are willing to offer, what physical resources they can offer or have access to, and so forth.

If you don't want to put your regular e-mail and contact #s on here I understand however if you do, that's fine. If you choose not to then if someone is interested in contacting you, they can just e-mail you and ask.

Eventually, perhaps a central contact list will be construed that I caretake and those in the tribe for a certain period of time who want it can have it...don't know, open to ideas on that one.

So here's my info: I write, act, direct and though I am not a DP am a good shooter too. I can production design and set dress, but prefer not to for no pay (paid those dues!) same goes for acting. I'm an accomplished, exhibited artist and on occassion have provided original art for productions, e.g. Kiss me Guido (Paramount Pictures), Discovery Channel "Places of Mystery" series 2001.

Details: I'm SAG but willing to do non SAG if the project and talent is amazing. I have experience working as an actor in films, tv and commercials mostly in European marke where I had a successful modeling career. For fun, have done a some production design/art direction (on my own stuff and an AFI short that was up for Academy Award nomination 'A Single Rose'). Wrote, directed, acted in my first film, a short yet to be finished. More on that upon completion! Documentary in the works.

Talents: acting, directing, art direction and FCP editing on FCP 3 and 4.

Resources: I'm in a film community called Filmmaker's alliance that has over 300 members (reccommend it as a good resource, only $120 to join) all industry professionals and aspirants. I have created good alliances there, done good work with people and have loads of barter credit there. Have access to all kinds of cameras, from cannon xl1's to sony vx 100's, 200's and even HD and the Sony 24 P. Know DPs, editors and assorted crew people willing tohelp on projects for minimal pay to credit only, if available and if they like the project. Have access to green screen.

Other: Father was an actor growing up and learned alot about film from him. Love literature, poetry and art! I believe in cross hybernating cinema with other art forms and creating new and interesting means of expressing through cinema.

Vision: Using cinema to inspire and fertilise a consciousness of interconnectivity, to re-sensitize and stimulate and support the cause of harmony on earth while promoting the impetus to explore, question and discover the wonder of existence. If cinema can further the concept of love beyond it's current applications and interpretations in society....that would be a wonderful thing. I believe it's possible...even inevitable.

Conclusion: The film medium can be constructive and destructive, why not use it for constructive? It's much more fun and let's face it, the time has come for this to be the focus.

P.S. You don't have to fulfill all the above subjects, but if you want to, go for it!

Your turn!

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The Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival

2005-08-13T18:16:18Z

http://www.earthdance.org/sf/highlights.html#spiral

Friday Night/Saturday Morning
Arlo Forest Stage
1:00am - 2:30am

Can’t handle another hit of bad enviro-news? Then check out the EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival - A celebration of independent, alternative films that promote environmental awareness through humor, creativity and hope. Featuring documentary, animated, and dramatic short films (2 – 20 minutes) by 12 domestic and international filmmakers, the EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival is a celluloid celebration of epic environmental proportions!
Festival Director: Zachery Zide.

Screening List (Total Running Time: 92 minutes):

The God - Director: Konstantin Bronzit – 4 min. Russia
A fabulous computer generated animation of the humorous struggle between a statue of Shiva and a house fly. Conclusion: Even a Hindu god might have to reincarnate to get rid of this bug.

Pas de Monde (Not of this World) – Director: Caroluna – 4 min. USA
A beautiful visual odyssey of dancing jelly ‘fish’ set to opera music sung by the film’s multi-talented director.

Ride of the Mergansers – Director: Steve Furman - 11 min. USA
Filmed entirely in northern Minnesota, this award-winning film is a heartwarming blend of natural history, humor, and suspense. You'll be entertained, educated, and inspired - and leave with a newfound appreciation of the phrase 'leap of faith.'

S.U.V. LUV – Director: Colin Campbell - 15 min. USA
It’s your classic love triangle: A guy, a girl and an S.U.V. He loves her, she loves the car, and the car loves the idea of running the guy over. Something’s got to give. Someone’s got to bleed. Will it be blood or oil?

Peregrine Dreams – Director: Greg Bernstein - 10 min. USA
In 1997 members of Project Bandaloop ascended the massive granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Over the course of six days and five nights they created a vertical dance that celebrated the return of the peregrine falcon from near extinction. This amazing film documents the team’s ascent and death-defying dance. It also articulates the exceptional nature of the peregrine falcon, the environmental issues that led to its near extinction and the work of the Predatory Bird Research Group of Santa Cruz.

Flip Flotsam – Director: Journeyman Pictures - 20 min. Africa
Ever wondered what happens to your footwear after you’re finished with it? This award-winning and startlingly original documentary traces the fantastic journey of Africa’s most popular shoes: the flip-flop. Easily bought, quickly discarded, the flip-flop stands as a symbol of the summer holiday for millions of westerners. But in its African homeland, it undergoes a series of versatile transformations. Filmed over a two year period, this uplifting film takes an ingenious look at the lifecycle of the flip-flop.

Birdbeat – Director: Geoff Adams - 4 min. USA
The ritual hierarchy at a backyard birdfeeder, accompanied by a saxophone ensemble. Cool, man.

Winnemem War Dance at Shasta Dam – Director: Christopher McLeod - 7 min. USA
A proposal to raise the height of Shasta Dam near Redding, California, threatens to flood Winnemem Wintu sacred sites on the McCloud River. In September, 2004, the Winnemem responded with a four-day war dance to spiritually unite the people in their struggle for sovereignty and religious freedom, and their efforts to protect the water, salmon and ceremonial sites. This important documentary tells the tale.

Catfish Blues – Director: Paul Morstad - 3 min. Canada
A lyrical animation about a catfish with the blues that goes for a walk around the block.

Das Rad (The Rocks) – Directors: Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Arvid Uibel - 9 min. Germany
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their lives on top of their mountain. Therefore, they are only mildly amazed by the goings-on in the valley below. They’ve got their own problems to deal with. But as humankind evolves, even Hew and Kew’s stoic existence is threatened. Nominated for the 75th Academy Awards.

Spirits of the Forest – Director: Taylor Lockwood – 3.5 min. USA
Witness an amazing, beautifully photographed collection of mushrooms set to baroque music.

Natural Transitions – Director: Nick Kalish – 2 min. USA
One teen’s personal struggle with his dichotomous connection to both urban and natural landscapes.

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LOVE, LABOR, LOSS
a Film by Lisa Russel

Friday Night/Saturday Morning
Arlo Forest Stage
2:30am - 3:00am

Film maker, Lisa Russel is currently collaborating with Congolese artist Marie Daulne of ZAP MAMA on The “Woman” Tour – a 3-week nationwide initiative using the mediums of music and film to increase American’s awareness about women’s health in the developing world. Throughout the tour, Lisa’s 15-minute advocacy video entitled LOVE, LABOR, LOSS – profiling women in Niger living with obstetric fistula (a relatively unknown but prevalent childbearing injury affecting poor women throughout Africa, Asia and other low-income regions) – will screen to audiences at universities, cultural centers and special events in collaboration with ZAP MAMA to educate, inspire and mobilize audiences with a message that investing in women is investing in a better world.

LISA RUSSELL is an independent documentary filmmaker whose background in international humanitarian work helps draw inspiration for her films about the health and well-being of our global society. Residing in Brooklyn, NY, Lisa has produced and directed films on AIDS activism in Africa, access to life-saving AIDS medications in Brazil, environmental degradation in Ghana and refugee resettlement in post-9/11 America. Lisa’s films are commonly tied into campaigns that integrate elements of social change – through fundraising, mass media or legislative action. For more information, please visit www.thewomantour.com.

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DANCES OF ECSTASY

Friday Night/Saturday Morning
Arlo Forest Stage
3 :00am - 4:30am

DANCES OF ECSTASY is a sensory journey into the mesmerising world of trance and ecstasy that binds dancers from Manhattan to Morocco. Australian filmmakers Michelle Mahrer and Nicole Ma travelled to traditional and modern day rituals to discover what is the altered state experience which people seek through dance. In these rituals, Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, Orisha priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil, and shaman healers from the Kalahari and Korea, pulse to the same beat as thousands of young people at an all night techno dance party in an Australian forest.

DANCES OF ECSTASY is a visual and aural feast for the senses, an innovative documentary blending exciting dance rituals, evocative imagery, interviews and a spellbinding global music soundtrack. The film is an inspiration to dance, and to reconnect with a sense of the sacred that many have lost touch with in modern life.

http:// www.dancesofecstasy.com

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"Original Child Bomb" on sundancechannel.com

2005-08-10T07:07:49Z

Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 4:30 pm EDT
Sunday, August 14, 2005, 3:30 pm EDT
Friday, August 10, 2005, 2:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 12 noon EDT

I have been disturbed, along with the general seismic level disturbances inherent in thinking about such events, at the low media involvement for the 60th anniversary of mass death and destruction by atomic weaponry. Not very much on television about it, though I did find a gem of a short film on the Sundance Channel, "Original Child Bomb." It's a montage of scenes from the bombings and from WWII and from modern life, interviews with people who survived, with US military personnel who were involved, with US military personnel who were guinea pigs for A-bomb testing, with modern schoolchildren discussing their impressions of that history, music of various genres, animation, voiceovers, poetry, a general burst of impressions and stark emotion.

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PSA competition info

2005-08-06T17:43:47Z

Dear friends,

I wasn't going to do this, but.... ah well, there's no harm in it and I'm sure there are amazing ideas in this group and possibly some of you have even done PSA's. Below is the competition info. that was posted to Filmmaker's alliance e-mail notice board a week or so ago. I only know as much as is in this notice and have not called the woman organizing it myself! I promise myself to do so tomorrow though.

Please keep this within this group and/or only to people you know who are really talented and into this kind of thing, not to your whole friend's list.

Peace and Bonne chance!

Bella

Dear FA Members,

I am currently promoting a PSA contest . I have attached information on the contest below. In short, we are looking for :30 submissions on censorship, racial profiling and the patriot act. We have some really wonderful judges on board- Ron Howard, Carlos Santana,
Carolyn Strauss, and many more.

Grand prize for winning PSA is $5000 and winner will be announced at
the Eureka Film Festival in NYC.

The contest is open to anyone from age 18 and above. I would love to spread the word to young filmmakers who want to try and win some money for their next production and get their work seen by some great people.

Please do not hesitate to call or email with any questions.

Thank you,
Jennifer Vasquez
Manager, Affiliate Marketing
Zilo Networks, Inc.
36 West 44th Street
Suite 1205
New York, NY 10036

(p)212.997.0505 x218
(f)212.997.0209

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Live8 concert

2005-07-09T22:10:34Z

http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now

Want to get involved? LIVE 8 is a historical event that brings together music's biggest names for a good cause. But they can't do it alone.

Find out how you can help

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36th Annual Willamette Writers Conference

2005-07-06T18:03:37Z

The 36th Annual Willamette Writers Conference
The Northwest¹s premier writer¹s event
August 5-7, 2005
Embassy Suites Portland Airport Hotel

Early Registration Extended!
Register before July 10 and save up to $55.

Pitch your literary or film project to over 60 agents, editors, producers
and managers. Choose from over 90 workshops and panels on the business and
craft of writing for nonfiction, fiction, and film.

Since we had a few delays launching our new registration system, we wanted
to make sure everyone has a chance at the early registration savings. Space
is selling out fast, so beat the new deadline and sign up today! The
conference is just a month away!

Register Online Now:
www.eroi.com/web/willame.....rs.com/selectPlan.php

For More Info: www.willamettewriters.com/wwc/

For help: (503) 452-1592 or wilwrite@willamettewriters.com

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threads

2005-06-29T10:42:33Z

the following are just some of the political documentaries i have been watching lately. there are common threads of understanding weaving so loud and clear between all the stories presented in these various films. i urge anyone who wishes to expand their conscious understanding of what is really going on around the world to take the well worthwhile effort getting to know these threads...please add to this list if you can...

Amy Goodman - Independent Media In A Time Of War
Arundhati Roy - Dam-age
Control Room
Hijacking Catastrophe
John Pilger - The New Rulers Of The World
John Pilger - Cambodia The Betrayal
John Pilger - Palestine is still the issue
Life And Debt
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Michael Parenti - Terrorism globalization and conspiracy

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"The New Heroes"

2005-06-25T21:37:27Z

http://www.alternet.org/story/22302/

A World of Economic Do-Gooders

By Matthew Wheeland, AlterNet. Posted June 24, 2005.

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The message woven throughout "The New Heroes," a four-hour PBS series that begins on June 28, is that well-meaning individuals can create immense change in the world. Each episode visits places where enterprising people have combined business skills with a desire to improve peoples' lives. The results are magnificent and uplifting. In India, Kailash Satyarthi raids a camp to free children and adults enslaved by the international rug trade. In Peru, Albina Ruiz Rios turns garbage into money by helping people start waste-management companies. Closer to home, Mimi Silbert runs the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco, a cluster of businesses including restaurants and a moving company that give ex-cons a chance to turn their lives around.

Several of the projects featured in the series make use of innovative technology to solve very basic problems. Nick Moon and Martin Fisher's company ApproTEC has distributed low-cost irrigation pumps and oilseed presses throughout Africa; the boost in productivity allows people to move beyond subsistence farming to make a better living, and the resulting boom in businesses contribute about $35 million a year to the developing country's economies.

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What these very different projects have in common is "social entrepreneurship," the concept at the core of "The New Heroes." Instead of seeking to reap profits, social entrepreneurs use their innovations to create social change, starting from the bottom up. It's an idea brilliantly summed up by the work of Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus, who says, "The whole principle of conventional banking is 'the more you have the more you get.' I said the logical thing would be the less you have, the more attention you should get, and if you have nothing, you are the one who should get the highest priority."

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Darkness at the break of noon

2005-06-18T07:37:08Z

Cinema Show

Darkness at the Break of Noon:
the malevolence of disconnection in chilling allegory

globally replace each noun with the pronoun of your choice
mix well
replace each verb with passivity
shade in the shadows to represent perspective
add background hellfire and brimstone for dimensionality
orchestrate with thrash metal out-of-phase syncopation
and booming bombing artillery -- donder und blitzen
analyze, organize, digitize, advertize
project to sell-out crowds
rewind, repeat, replete with popcorn, pepsi and promos.

(c) 2005 Laurie Corzett (libramoon)

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Seeing through darkness

2005-06-16T05:46:34Z

David raised such provokative questions to my question that I wanted to post it as it's own message as I'd love to hear what others think about this idea of "seeing through darkness. Below is my response to his question which you can read in the response to my posting "cinema a shamanic medium?"

David,

Interesting, thoughtful response...what do I mean by shamanic medium? Good question...I suppose it coudl mean a few things and could be exprssed a few ways. The word Shaman means, someone who can see through darkness....so a medium of this would be a vehicle or tool by which "sight" (meaning not only physical sight, but spiritual, intuitional, quantum etc.) is facillitated. If one were to think of cinema as a no less powerful than the most powerful of hallucinogens or plant teachers for example, how would one use that medium.

Shamans don't just gobble down second sight giving plants...there is a whole ceremonial preparaton and cultivated or innate awareness that is behind the ritual.

If one thinks of a filmmaker as having the ability to be a Western interpretation of shaman, in the sense of leading vision through darkness, then the task is no less sacred than that of a medicine man or woman.

How do we create good medicine with cinema (whether using film, video or whatever other technology is adopted) or...put another way, using cinema as a medium of entrancing the viewer into a state of consciousness that allows them to see in a more multi-dimensional way that shifts them to think, feel and behave diferently.

Seeing through darkness is an interesting idea and I've had my own experiences that could qualify as such...

darkness tends to get villified as if only light is good. In the Shamanic world, there is no judgment on darkness as either good or bad...it's simply part of the whole picture. Seeing through darkness to me, simply means a kind of sight, that is not dependent on light.

Your thoughts...?

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Illusions, new film

2005-06-12T21:47:42Z

Hi,

I was at the "Inspiration FIlm Festival" last night and saw two films. "Illusions" starring Kirk Douglas and some relatively little known actors is the one I want to highly reccommend. It does not have distribution as yet, sadly, but hopefully will. Kirk Douglas plays a dying HOllywood FIlm producer who is shown the life of his son he never knew via film reels by an angel, a deceased film editor who saved one of his movies from disaster. They sit in this empty movie theatre and review footage which is taken from the "akashic record"....(they don't go into the etymology of it, but akasha means sky and Edgar Cayce referred to the Akashic record as everything that has ever been felt, thought or experienced recorded in the ether...an etheric book or record). The Akashic record is depicted as a vast film library full of film reels with people's names on it...Quite chilling....and moving.

Go to www.inspirationfilms.com for more info.

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