#Skyglow a #photobook and #video series for the #darkskymovement [#geekgirl]
After a grueling three-year journey of over 150,000 miles traveled and 3,000,000 pictures taken, renowned timelapse filmmakers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan are proud to introduce SKYGLOW; a hardcover photo book and timelapse video series exploring North America’s remaining magnificent night skies and the grave threat of light pollution to our fragile environment. SKYGLOW explores the history and mythology of celestial observation, the proliferation of electrical outdoor lighting that spurred the rise of the phenomena known as “skyglow,” and the Dark Sky Movement that’s fighting to reclaim the night skies.
Featured by rock legends The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, BBC Earth, National Geographic, Time, National Park Service, and over 1000 media outlets, SKYGLOW images and videos have been seen by over half a billion people.
Source: Skyglow
Eric Blair aka George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Full #Documentary [#geekgirl]
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
Source: YouTube
We Are Not Alone a #documentary on the Unarius Academy of Science [#geekgirl]
This Labyrinth-esque documentary short, We Are Not Alone, tells the story of the Unarius Academy of Science and its founder Ruth E. Norman—known as “Archangel Uriel” to her students. Norman was an eccentric female leader and self-proclaimed clairvoyant of a spiritual collective in California. She encouraged her students to achieve personal transformation by producing wildly imaginative psychodramas about their past lives. The short film depicts the clear devotion that the Unarians felt towards Norman as they created films on their quest for spiritual healing. These films were shown on public access television in the 1980s, and are now coveted by outsider cinema film collectors.
We Are Not Alone is presented by the female-led media company The Front and directed by filmmaker Jodi Wille. You can find more information about their upcoming projects on their website, Twitter, and Facebook.
Source: The Atlantic
Editor’s note: I was first introduced to the Unarius Academy of Science at the Mu Meson Archives in Sydney. That’s like a REALLY long time ago. However, you gotta love the persistence of this organisation to keep showing up on this world and possibly many others 😉
The Unseen #Cinema of HR Giger, A New York City Festival of Films #surrealism [#geekgirl]
The Unseen Cinema of HR Giger, a festival of rare and never-before-seen films by and about the surrealist artist, takes place May 22 and 23, 2015 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. The Swiss artist–who passed away one year ago–is perhaps best known for designing the monster in the Alien film franchise. The festival will also include The Collaborations of HR Giger, a program focused on the artist’s notable collaborations, on May 22. The festival is presented in partnership with HR Giger Museum and the HR Giger Documentary Film Festival.
Source: Laughing Squid