MUFF 12: Melbourne Underground Film Festival #muff #geekgirl

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**Entries Close: June 15**
[www.muff.com.au]()

Your favourite trouble making Independent Australian Film Festival is back to cause fresh headlines and make waves in 2011. MUFF has survived criticism, condemnation, censorship, public outrage, Police Raids, stalkers and yet is still miraculously standing (a little wobbly granted) and back for more trouble in ’11. You know you love it!

Out the Window: capture Los Angeles in two minutes #freewaves #riders #LA #geekgirl

OUT THE WINDOW
http://www.freewavesopencall.org/

What do you know about Los Angeles?   Want to share your knowledge on TV?

Submission deadline  March 1, 2011
Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activists-storytellers’  videos about places in Los Angeles (home, street, hood) to show to I million riders per day on all 2,200 Metro buses in L.A. County in June  and September-October, 2011. On Transit TV we will show animations,  documentaries, narratives and experimental videos about, by and in Los  Angeles.

Entry Form

the dark side of the summer of love #mumesons #film

Cover illustration: Yuko Shimzu

Mu-mesons January program is raucous and revolutionary. Most of the films appeal to me: but the dark side of the summer of love definitely stands out.

Monday 17 January, 2011
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives

The Dark Side of the Summer of Love
The Western World believed revolution was imminent in the 1960′s, obviously they had not looked deep enough into the dark side of the age of Aquarius. Authors such as Gary Lachman and Peter Levenda were well aware that the morning of the magicians was really the night of the living dead. Rolling underneath flower power power was a mystical fascism developed in secret labs and based on occult principles in the search of the control of the human mind. Charles Manson, Anton LaVey and the process Church of the Final judgment to name a few were all utilised by intelligence services to assist Mkultra and other shadowy covert ops.

Mu-Meson Archives
Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale (Sydney) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase.
Phone 02 9517-2010
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10

#Melbourne. DUST & ILLUSIONS. A Burning Man #Film #geekgirl

Melbourne. DUST & ILLUSIONS. A Burning Man Film
 
More Info GET TICKETS now: ($18 presales, $20 door)
http://dustandillusions.com/blog/melbourne-screening-dec-15th-2010

Dusts & Illusions
A Documentary film by Olivier Bonin. Madnomad Films 2009
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Exploring the deep origins of the annual BURNING MAN festival Dust & Illusions examines the evolution of the largest counter-culture festival in North America from the 1970s until today.

Using rare and unseen archival footage, including interviews of the founders, artists and participants, Dust & Illusions reveals long-forgotten events and memories of key participants that shaped and influenced the festival in powerful ways.

Bringing a critical perspective, Dust & Illusions analyses the development of culture, art and community as experienced by the participants of BURNING MAN.

Screening ONE night only!
Wednesday, December 15 · 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Location Kino Cinemas
45 Collins Street
Melbourne, Australia

View the Trailers here: http://dustandillusions.com/trailers

The Freedom Series Movie by Lee-Anne Raymond #sharia #law

The Freedom Series-by-Lee-Anne Raymond

 ”Passion For Freedom 2010″ is a selected art event, organised by One Law For All, and is one of many events combining to challenge the push to implement Sharia Law within the UK or any other secular democracy.

http://www.leeanneart.com/events.html

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Lee-Anne Raymond
www.leeanneart.com
Humanist Transhumanist Catalogue
www.phantastsurreal.com

48Hour #Film Project – #Melbourne #geekgirl

48Hour Film Project – Melbourne
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**Register by November 30**
[www.48melbourne.com.au](http://www.48melbourne.com.au/)

The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) is a wild and sleepless weekend in which film making teams make a short movie in just 48 hours. That means – writing, shooting, editing & scoring it!

Everybody who has access to some camera and editing equipment can take part. For those who don’t have access to gear, we can arrange some hiring deals. We will screen ALL the films at the Big Sceen of the prestigious inner-city BMW Edge, Federation Square, that will be our homebase and screening venue for this year.

You will have the chance to win some sweet prizes & awards.

You can register as a team or find cast and crew using the starnow service.  Jump on boad and have the most exhausting but memorable, funny, sweaty and exciting 48 non-stop film making hours of your life!

The 48 Hour Film Proejct timeline is:

**3.12.10: The Kick Off**
Thats when it gets hot – the 48 hour countdown starts
**5.12.10: The Drop Off**
When you hand in your finished films
**17.12 & 18.12.10: Screenings at BMW Edge Theatre**
Two days in which we show ALL the films
**19.12.10 Awards Night & After Party**
The 12 best films are screened – and get awarded with cool prizes. Plus the after party!

Bio:Fiction #Science, #Art & #Film Festival #geekgirl

Call for entries :: Vienna, Austria :: Deadline 1 December

Synthetic biology aims at creating new forms of life for practical purposes.  Bio:Fiction want to encourage filmmakers to produce and share their cinematic visions of a present or future society shaped by synthetic biology. Entries can be on science, fiction, or science fiction – live-action short film, animation, experimental or documentary film.

http://www.bio-fiction.com

Australia Day Film Competition – How would you capture the Reel Australia? #competition #film #geekgirl

Australia Day Film Competition
Entries Close: Friday December 3
www.aussievault.com.au

How would you capture the Reel Australia?

The Australia Day Council of NSW (ADCNSW) has launched the inaugural Reel Australia Short Film competition, giving short film enthusiasts across the country the opportunity to be recognised by telling the real Australian story through film.

Proudly supported by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the ADCNSW is calling on all Australians to grab their video cameras, explore and share their interpretations of who we are as a nation in a two minute film.

“One of Australia’s favorite leisure activities is indeed attending the cinema and Reel Australia arrives amid exciting times as the global box office for this year’s Australian films pushes beyond $100m. We’ll be watching this competition closely, both for compelling reels about what it means to be Australian, but also of course for promising new talent!” says AFI CEO Damian Trewhella.

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

Love is a Puzzle, These are the Pieces #littledeaths #movie #geekgirl

[www.littledeaths.com](http://www.littledeaths.com)

Some of Australia’s brightest emerging directing talent have come together to collaborate on the eleven-part feature film **Little Deaths**. In the vein of Jim Jarmusch’s **Coffee and Cigarettes** and Robert Altman’s **Short Cuts**, **Little Deaths** is eleven stories about love, loss, music and sex.

In **Little Deaths**, each of the 11 short stories “ written by Giula Sandler “ comments on and adds to the ones that came before and after. As a feature film, the story of the lonely tollbooth operator (Abe Forsythe) provides the thread that joins the interweaving tales. Whilst he imagines the love stories of those who pass through his toll gate, he discovers one of his own to explore and ultimately, the stories help guide him toward true love.

The shorts were directed by Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, Melanie Brunt, Giula Sandler, Chris Benz, Fin Edquist, Jarrah Gurrie, Genevieve Bailey, Geoff Hitchins, James Teh and Toby Angwin. The cast includes Magda Szubanski, Adam Zwar, Alexandra Schepisi, Abe Forsythe and even **Animal Kingdom** director David Michod in one of the leading roles.

**Little Deaths** will begin its exclusive cinema release at Cinema Nova from November 4. #Melbourne.