DMT: The Spirit Molecule documentary and talk – #Melbourne #psychedelics #dimethyltryptamine #geekgirl

The Spirit Molecule flyer

Undergrowth.org and Entheogenesis Australis –  present the 2010 Spirit Molecule documentary Australian tour, with screenings along the east coast in December followed by talks with the writer/director Mitch Schultz.

The Spirit Molecule documentary
(75 mins, 2010, written & directed by Mitch Schultz)
After over 40 years of dormancy, a new psychedelic revolution has emerged.

At the nexus of this next-generation mystical revival, lies a molecule  naturally produced abundantly throughout the plant and animal  kingdoms. Regarded as the world’s most potent psychoactive compound by  scientists and psychedelic explorers alike, dimethyltryptamine (or  DMT) is also naturally produced in the human brain.

In the early 1990s, Dr. Rick Strassman conducted the first government- sanctioned, human psychedelic research with DMT. Dr. Strassman’s  research serves as the narrative backbone for The Spirit Molecule. A  documentary described as a psychedelic Baraka meets What the Bleep do  We Know, the film presents an intriguing discourse on the science of  the soul, and will undoubtedly open Pandora’s Box. By challenging  current misconceptions about this class of compounds, The Spirit  Molecule unravels fascinating parallels in neurology, quantum physics  and human spirituality.

In stylized scenes reminiscent of Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone  bookends, Joe Rogan (Fear Factor), alongside an impressive collection  of accomplished minds and a group of Strassman’s own brave psychonauts  shepherd the audience through the great unknowns of the DMT experience… revealing the molecule’s ubiquitous nature, its role in  our culture, evolution and life itself. Stunning visualizations and highly conceptual imagery intuitively weaves a visual landscape, and a  fascinating snapshot of our understanding of consciousness today.

Could Dimethyltryptamine, a simple molecule with a complex name, hold  the key to understanding reality, consciousness and our relationship  to both?

Many who have experienced DMT profess this, and much more…http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour

With an exclusive 20-minute short film, “Surfing” by Verb Studios (Tim  Parish), narrated by Rak Razam and soundscapes by Buttons Touching,  based on the book Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

SCREENING: MELBOURNE
Wed December 1st, 9pm to 12pm
CINEMA NOVA P: (03) 9349 5201
380 Lygon Street Carlton VIC 3053

BUY TICKETS here for this event and other Australian screenings:   http://www.showclix.com/

Tickets are AUD $23/20 concession, and advance bookings are essential. http://undergrowth.org/spiritmoleculetour

epi-thet AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #mixedmedia #geekgirl

EXPERIMENTA PRESENTS

epi-thet, by Melbourne artists Madeline Flynn, Tim Humphrey and Jesse Stevens, is a mixed media sound installation activated by the audience.  epi-thet uses data from public domain genetic databases to create sound and image. Using an algorithm that maps data from the genetic process to sound parameters, and information drawn simply from posture, a composition unique to  each individual participant is created.

Within the cavernous space of the Meat Market, three microscopes sit on platforms waiting for the audience to bring them to life. Hidden within each microscope is a tiny animation, an enticing assembly of images and words that we use to describe ourselves and each other. By approaching the platforms, audience members activate their own captivating sound and light experience that is created from the viewer’s height and posture. Just as our genetic makeup determines what makes us individual, how we move as individuals affects how we experience the intriguing work epi-thet.

Inspired by an ANAT Synapse Residency with Dr Shane Grey at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, musicians and composers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey have been working since 2008 on the sonification of research data, making it possible to hear as well as see a representation of the genetic process.

Experimenta is pleased to present this project as part of the
Melbourne International Arts Festival

Arts House, Meat Market
5 Blackwood Street
North Melbourne, 3051
until Saturday 23 October, 2010
1pm – 9pm. FREE!

2011 #Melbourne #Queer Film Festival #MQFF

Entries close: December 1
Festival screenings March 17-27
www.mqff.com.au

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival invites submissions to its 21st Film Festival in 2011. Each year the Festival screens over 150 features, shorts, documentaries and experimental films from Australia and all around the world over 11 days. The Festival is Australia’s largest, oldest and most successful queer film festival and screens at 3 premier Melbourne venues including the state of the art Australian Centre for the Moving Image to audiences of over 25,000. The MQFF also tours highlights of its program to various parts of Australia.

Titles can be of any length and should be of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered communities.

There is over $10,000 in the cash prize pool including the jury voted City of Melbourne Award for Best Australian Short Film ($2000), and the Audience Awards for Best Feature ($3000) Documentary ($2000) etc.

Bloodbath Roller Derby – still time to win tix #bumpp #geekgirl

BLOODBATH double pass giveaway.
Want to win a double pass to the BLOODBATH Oct 9th at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney? Post your best photo of A PRIOR ROLLER DERBY EVENT, be it as an audience member, in costume, or team-mate or war wound focused; we want to see you at your Roller Derby best!

Join the facebook group, post your pic to the photo album, and tag your name to enter the contest! Winners will be revealed on Friday 8 October 2010. C’mon! Do it!

BLOODBATH is a collaborative distributed artwork by Bump Projects in association with the Sydney Roller Derby League. BLOODBATH features artists Linda Dement, Kate Richards, Sarah Waterson, Francesca da Rimini, and Nancy Mauro-Flude, each with recognised track records in new media, data visualisation, mediated performance and/or work with embodiment or violence. At an all girl flat track roller derby game, Sydney, 9 October 2010, sensors on the helmets of players feed data to their five artworks, generating digital elaborations of the moves and collisions on track.

French live cinema collective SUPERFLUX team up with #Melbourne AV collective STREAM #fringe #geekgirl

Superstream_eflyer

16MM PROJECTIONS. HOME-MADE INSTRUMENTS. LIVE VIDEO. NOISE TOYS

French live cinema collective SUPERFLUX team up with Melbourne AV collective STREAM for a night of performances.

Artists:
RICHARD BOKHOBZA (Fr)
ETIENNE CAIRE (Fr)
MARCO CHER-GIBARD (Aus)
ROSALIND HALL (Aus)
MARCIA JANE (Aus)
LIONEL PALUN (Fr)
GAËLLE ROUARD (Fr)

SAT 25 SEPT
8.00pm (2hrs)
FREE

Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre cnr Sydney & Glenlyon Rds, Brunswick, Melbourne

Presented by RMIT Union [Arts]

Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010

http://lionelpalun.com/superflux/indexE.html
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=126878077361438
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/superstream
http://streamcollective.wordpress.com/

Maya Deren’s films screened with experimental live soundtracks #Melbourne #geekgirl

Eye-MayaDeren

Five of Melbourne’s best experimental acts have organised the opportunity to see them play new soundtracks live to the films of Maya Deren.

Maya Deren was the first lady of avant-garde film making in the 1940′s and 1950′s, not only a filmmaker in her own right but also collaborating with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Antony Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren Her films are a wonderfully textured and moodily lit black and white and deal with themes such as ritual, movement, violence and beauty.

On 4th September  Occult Blood, Rottuer, Siilt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos will play their own unique soundtracks to her films,
including improvisations between Occult Blood and Rotteur, – Sillt, Electronic Shaman and Abre Ojos.

The films screened are:

Occult Blood: At Land
Rotteur: Ritual in Transfigured Time
Electronic Shaman: Meshes of The Afternoon
Siilt: Meditation on Violence
Abre Ojos: The Very Eye of Night

With collaboration performances to:
Witches Cradle and an edited version of Divine Horsemen- The Living
Gods of Haiti

Occult Blood: noise wall degrading tape loops vocals to resurrect Maya herself http://www.myspace.com/occultblood
Rottuer: Rotteur makes cold, desolate soundscapes, haunted by droning machinery and sparse abstracted electronics. http://www.myspace.com/rotteur
Electronic Shaman: follower of the left hand path delivers resonance from the forgotten tombs of the old ones and stygian vistas of distant worlds http://electronicshaman.com
Siilt: siilt is dusty voltage-controlled atmospheres and loops by s.klein, also of Terminal Sound System (Extreme Music, AU) and HALO
(Relapse Records, USA). www.antisound.net
Abre Ojos: is improvised sound and vision for dystopian meditation http://abreojos.net

Saturday 4th September
Doors open 2.00pm at Loop Bar 23 Meyers Place Melbourne, Tix $10 full/ $5 Conc.
http://www.looponline.com.au

MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL #muff #geekgirl

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) proudly announces the full 2010 program for its 11th annual festival.MUFF XI will run from 20 – 28 August at three venues across Melbourne; the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick, Thousand Pound Bend in the CBD, and Open Channel’s Shed 4 Cinema in the Docklands.

Further… MUFF Festival Director Richard Wolstencroft wishes to shoot post MUFF late 2010, using the new MUFF camera, the Canon XL H1, and a team of talented crew and actors he has got to know through MUFF and his own cinema practice. For this project he is looking for some crew to collaborate with on an exciting new low budget narrative digital feature.

Visit MUFF website for program and details

Jay Rosen in #Melbourne, 3pm, August 17 #journalists #pressthink #geekgirl

Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and is a former chair of the department. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists FOR? which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement in the 1990s. He is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals, which he introduced in September 2003. In July 2006, Rosen announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. In 2007-08 he was the co-publisher, with Arianna Huffington, of OfftheBus.Net, collaborating NewAssignment.Net and the Huffington Post. In 2009 he founded the Studio 20 program at NYU, which is focused on innovation. He lives in Manhattan. He blogs at http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/. Follow Jay on Twitter @jayrosen_nyu.

Jay Rosen is also guest speaker at the What’s the Story? Walkley Media Conference 2010

Jay Rosen will deliver lectures to journalists and students in Sydney and Melbourne. Rosen will speak at the ABC in Sydney at 10am, August 16. He’ll be at Australia Post in Melbourne at 3pm, August 17. For more info or to register email events@walkleys.com.

You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork #geekgirl

You were in my Dream – online interactive artwork

You Were In My Dream is an online interactive artwork that invites you to leap and cavort with some crazy characters in a bizarre ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ animation. Turn on your webcam for some seriously hysterical identity theft!

Work by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

Life In A Day a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you #geekgirl

One World. 24 Hours. 6 Billion Perspectives
Saturday July 24, 2010
www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On Saturday July 24 you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator) and directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void).

The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and on YouTube. If your footage makes it into the finished film, you’ll be credited with as a co-directors and you could be one of 20 contributors heading to Sundance for the premiere.