Being In The World #film #movie #geekgirl

www.beingintheworldmovie.com

Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters, in fields like sports, music, craft and cooking. Are these masters able to inspire us and bring back a sense of wonder, possibly even of the sacred?

The Marxist Matrix – How to make sense of all those dreams-within-dreams in Inception.

The Marxist Matrix
How to make sense of all those dreams-within-dreams in Inception.
By Jonah Weiner for Slate

About halfway through Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Arthur lifts an assault rifle and tries, unsuccessfully, to take out a group of attackers firing on him from a nearby rooftop. Arthur’s teammate Eames nudges him to one side and tells him, with an audible smirk, “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” He produces an enormous grenade launcher, takes aim, and gets the job done. As with many moments in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster, this one requires some parsing. It seems that Eames conjures up his gargantuan gun on the spot, at his whim.

Editor’s note: As I’m off to see Inception this w/knd I steeled myself from reading more…

Source: Slate

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.

Drive-In to the #Melbourne International Film Festival #MIFF #geekgirl #zombies

Friday July 30 & Saturday July 31
Shed 4, North Wharf Road
Victoria Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne

Open Channel have joined forces with MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) to present two nights of Drive-In Cinema at Shed 4. Rev up your engines, lay down the front seat and head for the Docklands end of Bourke Street.

Friday July 30, 9.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed! + For Yr Height Only
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
(Mark Hartley, Australia, 2009, 85 mins)
Admission 18+

Busty babes, mutated monsters and midget secret agents, the Filipino genre films of the 70s and 80s had it all. Saturating drive-ins around the world, the Philippines became a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers with cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations!

The all-too often overlooked world of Filipino exploitation flicks gets the Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero and a host of filmmakers, actors and critics, each with a story about a genre with no scruples, no scripts, no boundaries and – more often than not – no clothes.

Screens with For Y’r Height Only (Eddie Nickart, Philippines, 1981, 93 mins)

This Filipino heightsploitation classic starring 2″9′ action hero Weng Weng is a satire of the James Bond series that – while featuring a hero short in stature – doesn’t fail to measure up in the cheesy action department.

Saturday July 31, 9.15pm
Survival of the Dead + Down Terrace
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Survival of the Dead
(George A Romero, USA, 2009, 90 mins)
Admission 18+

The sixth film in the Dead series from zombie king George A. Romero.

Offering up the flesh-chomping effects enthusiasts have come to know and love, Romero’s franchise continues with a pulpy Western-influenced tale that follows Sarge (a minor character from Diary of the Dead) and his deserter band of soldiers.

After stumbling across an exiled Irishman called O’Flynn, Sarge and his militia head to the remote outpost of Plum Island. What they encounter is a stand-off between O’Flynn and a rival clan over whether the zombies should be annihilated or confined until a cure is found. As the conflict escalates, Sarge’s band find themselves fighting to survive.

screens with: Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2009, 89 mins). Admission 18+

This black suburban comedy slickly marries family drama to crime-flick to produce a cross-genre gem.

Father-and-son gangster duo Bill and Karl, released from a four-month stint in a Brighton prison, settle back into a routine of drinking, pot-smoking and crime. But there’s a snitch in their midst, and the dysfunctional family of thugs are set to explode with violence.

Brimming with menace, Down Terrace stars co-writer Robin Hill alongside his real-life wife and father, and features a chilling crime clan matriarch that puts Jacki Weaver’s performance in Animal Kingdom to shame.

Aussiecon 4: World Convention of Science Fiction & Fantasy #Melbourne #geekgirl

Entries close: August
Screenings: September 2-6
www.aussiecon4.org.au

Aussiecon 4 is the 68th world convention of science fiction and fantasy. This event will be held in Melbourne in early-September and will host 1,500 authors, artists, filmmakers and fans of sci-fi, fantasy and horror from around the world. The organisers are looking to put together a program of Australian sci-fi, fantasy, horror and animated films from the past 5 years.

More Info: fanboy@gmail.com

Mobile Film – Call for Submissions #Australia

Mobile Screenfest is the first mobile phone film festival of its kind in Australia. Proudly presented by ARAYA PICTURES, this is the first festival where all films and photographs are shot entirely on mobile phones. The festival aims to recognise the growing global phenomenon of shot-on-mobile content. Mobile Screenfest seeks creative shot-on-mobile memories, stories and entries that will set high standards for user generated content in Australia.

This contest is free to enter and there is no training required. Over $10,000 in prizes are on offer.

Deadline is 22 August.

Guidelines and application form for Mobile Screenfest here

Artist Film Workshop #meetups #melbourne

The Artist Film Workshop is a new open collective with screenings and  workshops happening in Melbourne. If you are an artist working with film (or want to), come along to the first gathering / screening: 8pm  Thurs 24 June at TAPE Space, 1/81 Bouverie St Carlton, Melbourne.

Bring something  to show if you have it, whether finished or in progress. 16mm, super 8  and 8mm all catered for, and special requests can be accommodated. Or  just bring yourself and see what it’s about.

http://artistfilmworkshop.org/

Soda_Jerk ‘After the Rainbow’

Museum Victoria is offering a $5,000 award for up to 2 young emerging new media artists

Museum Victoria are looking for innovative proposals for digital projects that can be exhibited online as part of a 3 year project called Talking Difference.

The aim is to inspire conversations between and within cultures about difference and commonality.

Your project could utilise any form of digital media. It could be a short film, interactive game, online interactive artwork, digital public art project, mobile phone application… the possibilities are endless.

 For more information and application form go to:
 http://museumvictoria.com.au/talkingdifference

Burning Man Open Day #Melbourne – April 24th

Start Time: Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 2:00pm
Location: Pipemakers Park Melbourne

Description.MELBOURNE REGION ‘OPEN DAY’ SAT 24TH APRIL 2010

Wanting time to reconnect with the good energy left over from ConFest or Every Picture Tells a Story? Love Burning Man or want to know more about? Or just want to have a fun day with a great group of people? Then this is the event for you!!

Burning Man’s newly created ‘Melbourne Region’ is putting its name right on the Map, on Saturday 24th April 2010, with a wonderful afternoon and evening of activities at the Future Art Research Studio which is located in Pipemakers Park at the Living Museum of the West.

The day will be running from 2pm to Midnight with an entry of $10.

All money will go toward supporting regional activities and the upcoming Regional Burn in June.

Come and participate in a diverse range of entertainment and activities where you may find, Performers, Drummers, Comedians, a Burn School, Fire Twirlers, Movies, Costumes, Exhibitions, Musicians/Acts, DJs, Workshops & Talks, all gifted in the true Burning Man spirit.

Bring out your creative side and dress in your funkiest costumes!!

The day is a mini showcase of what you may find at Burning Man or any of the Regional Burns worldwide.

Everyone is a participant and there is always a space to welcome the stranger.

To be involved and placed on the program or even be part of the organising team, please contact:

Email: melbourne@burningmanaustralia.com
Website: http://burningmanaustralia.com