My name was Diane Rochlin and I was a collaborator in the film Vali (1965) by Sheldon Rochlin. We (Sheldon and I) thereafter made a movie called Dope (completed ’68,) shot in London, which contains several very brief scenes with Vali Myers from the time that she came to London to dance onstage at a Donovan concert at Royal Albert Hall. Sheldon died in 2002, and I am the surviving filmmaker.
I have recently started a website http://www.dopethemovie.net to show this totally underground classic, which features
besides Vali (and Rudi Rappold), Caroline Thomson who lived near Vali in a cave when we were filming the movie Vali (and who appears in the Vali movie having her forehead tattooed) and also Casey Deiss (who also lived in Positano and who is also dead these many years-struck by lightning in Italy shortly after we completed the filming of Dope).
So, I’m writing this to inform you of the new website for the movie Dope which may be of interest for the many devotees of Vali on your website.
There is a trailer for the movie on the site, and the movie itself can be watched by streaming video or else ordered on DVD.
By the way, the black and white photo of Vali with Foxy on your site was taken by me. It was published as part of a large 3 page photo collage and letters from Vali to Sheldon and me in Aspen Magazine psychedelic issue (1971)
All best wishes
Flame Schon (formerly Diane Rochlin)
http://www.dopethemovie.net
and my own website is
www.reconfiguration.net (if you’d like more background)
We Invite submissions for featured artists in our upcoming publication.
The Evolutionary Girls are a group of artists, activists and scholars. We include all genders. You can read about the group at www.evolutionarygirls.com.
Our next book publication (2008-09), will focus on: The creation and & structure of borders and voice in context with global and local or domestic relationships, particularly with the rise of Asian, African and Latina/o communities;
We are also interested in how we as visual artists, educators, and activists for example, document/ perform/demonstrate this changing world through our creative work…
Other themes to be explored can include:
+ hyphenated identities/political/gender/sexual identities
+ working cross-culturally and in group collectives to produce art
+ performing culture,/creating art
+ representations of real world and virtual world art and knowledge Please submit the following on a CD or DVD labeled with your name and ‘featured artist submission’ to evolutionary girls, 186 Henrietta st., Rochester, NY 14620:
-The submission form
-A check for $10 made out to evolutionary girls or an $11 payment via paypal to spiraltri@hotmail.com
-Please include an image of yourself (300dpi, tiff, RGB, about 3×3′).All images should meet these specs.
-The material you are submitting (article, poems, etc.)
-A paragraph that locates your work within the above theme.
All text documents should be .doc (word) documents. Please save your files as yourlastnametitleofpiece.doc or.tiff.
E-mail: spiraltri@hotmail.com
Web: www.evolutionarygirls.com
Voices from the Waters 2008
3rd International Film Festival on Water Bangalore/India
Bangalore Film Society, Arghyam, Svaraj- Society for Voluntary Action Revitalization and Justice, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, USA (FLEFF) Mountainfilm in Telluride, USA, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and Water Journeys – Campaign for Fundamental Right to Water are organizing the third International ‘Voices from the Waters’- the biggest international film festival on water in August 2008 following on the footsteps of the hugely popular and successful events in 2005 and 2007.
This consortium of committed organizations active in water issues are inviting you to be part of this festival by contributing short, documentary, animation and feature films (DVD format only) with English subtitles on water and related issues. Also include a photograph and CV of the film-maker, a minimum of three film stills and a short synopsis of the film. You are also most welcome to send us photographs for exhibition at the festival.
The first edition of ‘Voices from the Waters’ was held in April 2005 in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, while the second was held in June 2007 in Bangalore, India by a consortium of organizations. With the overwhelming success and the positive responses to the festival from across the globe and the urgency of the water issue to a planet headed towards catastrophe, ‘Voices from the Waters’ is being organized as an annual event of images and sounds, of films, songs, photo and art exhibitions, lectures and conferences, a platform for diverse voices – free as water as nature intended it to be.
If you have a film under the following categories:
1. Water Scarcity,
2. The Dams and the Displaced,
3. Water Harvest,
4. Water Struggles,
5. Floods and Droughts,
6. Global Warming and Climate Change,
7. Impact of Deforestation on Water Bodies and
8. Water and Life,
you should consider sending it to us so that we may place them in the festival. All entries will be acknowledged. ‘Voices from the Waters’ is a public awareness program and while there is no entry fee for the festival, the final short-list for the festival will be decided from the entries by a committee comprised of eminent film-makers, film critics and social activists. This is also conceived as a traveling film festival.
Deadline for entries is 30th April, 2008 .
For more information, contact us at the address below.
Georgekutty A.L.
Secretary, Bangalore Film Society, 33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, MS Nagar P.O., Bangalore- 560 033. Karnataka, India
3° international edition CyBorg Film Festival, competition of short films and new territories. CyBorg Produzioni and the Cultural association CYBORG introduce the third international edition CyBorg Film Festival competed of short films and new territories, that will have been held since June 04 to June 08 th 2008 Anghiari (ar) by Luisella Chiribini.
Patronage:
Region Tuscany
Province of Arezzo – Ass. Juvenile Politics
(the preparation is in evolution and waiting for other patronages)
The short film competition is divided in 2 competitive sections .
1) sci-fi: reserved for short films inspired by the theme: science fiction and variations of the theme.
2) anime: reserved for animated works made with any free theme technique.
—>For new territories, not competitive section, the ciruit CYbOrg OFF: back stage and/or the making of any free theme work.
—>Telefilm inspired by the theme: science fiction and/ or free theme.
E-mail: info@cyborgproduzioni.org
Web: http://www.cyborgproduzioni.org
INVITATION “Synthetic Times: Media Art Now” NEW YORK: April 14, 7pm, Titus 2 Theater, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and April 15 at Tishman Auditorium, New School University New York plus evening event at
EYEBEAM.
A conference in preparation for “Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008” held at the National Art Museum of China in June 2008. Speakers include: Barbara London, Zhang Ga, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Arthur Kroker, Jordan Crandall, Erkki Huhtamo, Mariana Rodon, Miao Xiaochuan, Sissel Tolaas, Luc Courchesne, etoy.ZAI and many others.
INFO http://www.mediartchina.org/events/newyorkmoma
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INVITATION discussion “Doing business with the Chinese government?” Saturday April 19 (2PM-6PM) at etoy.IMPLANT / Zurich. Background: As announced etoy is invited to participate in a show at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in June 2008 (exhibition website: http://www.mediartchina.org/). Several agents consider to make use of the etoy.VETO to block the participation. The management invited guests who will explain the “Tibet/China problem” and hopes to find creative approaches to support the open minds in China.
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INVITATION to the GM of etoy.CORPORATION SA: Saturday, May 24 (2PM-4PM). All registered shareholders are called to attend the annual meeting or to appoint a representative (other etoy.SHAREHOLDER). Venue: the new etoy.IMPLANT in Zurich/Switzerland. The official invitation to shareholders follows.
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kisses from your etoy.AGENTS
http://www.etoy.com
etoy.IMPLANTAT
Raeffelstrasse 32
CH 8045 Zurich
