Upcoming Gigs

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Time Capsules Cinema programme
Thursday Feb 1st + every Thu onwards...
FEBRUARY 2007 SCREENING SEASON

8:30 PM
Every Thursday
ABC GALLERY
127 Campbell St
Collingwood

Gold coin donation . .
. . . large video screen
. . . Bar at pub prices

* Thursday Feb 1st - 8:30 pm
Extradimensional Yearnings Part 1
3 hrs 10mins

Poeme Electronique - Le Corbusier / Edgar Varese 1958
A distillation of the groundbreaking large-scale multimedia work presented at the first post-WWII World Fair in Brussels1958. A journey in light and sound, from prehistoric time, through world war and towards a radiant future. (8.27)

Les Astronauts - Walerian Borowcyk 1959
Idiosyncratic montage-animation describing the desire to go beyond planet earth. An inventor with the help of his homebaked craft unleashes a promethian mischief onto the world at large. (12.05)

Le Planete Sauvage - Rene Laloux 1973
Beautiful animated feature exploring the dominance of humans over other life-forms and of one class over another by placing humans into the role of vermin on a planet of giants. (1.11.47)

Ah Pook is Here - Phil Hunt 2005
A disarmingly cute animated interpretation of William Burroughs’s metaphysical apocalypse, the riddle of death, the end of control, the end of the empire, and the demise of the great gods of time and space. (6.04)

Spectres of the Spectrum - Craig Baldwin 1999
A science-fiction allegory that mixes the wild frontiers of science and utopian revolt through a subversion of Science TV, Propaganda, and Newsreel. Baldwin illustrates the voice of rebel scientist Yogi and his angry daughter Boo-boo as they plot the demise of corporate electromagnetic tyranny. (1.31.14)

* Thursday Feb 8th - 8:30pm
Extradimensional Yearnings Part 2 3 hrs 40mins

In the Realms of the Unreal - Jessica Yu 2005
An extremely moving portrait of Henry Darger; America’s most significant outsider artist. From a brutalised childhood to monastic isolation, Darger survived purely through the creation of an epic 15 000 page pictorial novel. An alternate reality of enslaved children rising against brutal adult oppressors and the establishment of a garden of earthly delight populated with hermaphrodite children, fantastic beasts and mutant flowers. (1.20.01)

Sun Ra : Space is the Place - John Coney 1974
Sun Ra, space-age prophet, Pharaonic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz bandleader lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra proclaims himself “the alter-destiny” espousing a mixagé of sonic theory, transcendentalism, and pan-african nativism. A unique collision of street culture and esoteric instruction. (1.21.17)

The Arrival - Brotherhood of Unarius 1978
The allegedly true story of Zan, a primitive warrior and son of a chief, who is contacted by an immense Starship while on expedition. In telepathic conversations with the “Brothers”, he is awakened. One of two feature films made by the Unarians, the world’s most deliriously flamboyant UFO religion, founded by the incarnate angel Uriel (Ruth Norman) and her partner Ernest. Amazing art direction and effects expound a vision somewhere between Hubbards’ “Battleship Earth”, and a Las Vegas Burlesque. Uriel’s earnest yet arrhythmic mid-western sermonising is as rapturous as her wig and gown selection. (http://www.synrecords.com/spacer.gif)

* Thursday Feb 15th - 8:30pm
Entheogenic Ethnographic Television 3 hrs 20mins

Shamans of the Amazon - Dean Jeffereys 2002
A solid yet fairly devotional exploration of Ayahuasca culture through Ecuadorian Shamans Enrique and Raphael, Shaman Artist Pablo Amaringo, Santo Daime “priest” Yatra De Silvera Babosa, and most famed expert on super psychedelic DMT, Terrence McKenna. An SBS independent documentary. (52.17)

Jungle Trip - Piers Gibbon 1995
TV maker and narrator Piers Gibbon has more than a passing fascination for ethnobotany. He goes to the Amazon to seek out the main ingredient of Ayahuasca, “Psychotria Viridis Chacruna” for his growing collection.
(49.22)

Detox or Die - Liam McDougall
Liam has relapsed one too many times into the squalid world of being a junkie in Glasgow. He hears of the miraculous but brutal psychedelic therapy achieved by the use of Ibogaine… his last chance. Astounding and harrowing self portrait of heroin addiction and an unusual salvation. (43.43)

Tribe “Babongo” - Bruce Parry
Somewhat irritating adventurer goes on expedition into Gabon and Congo to be with the Babongo (Pygmies). He experiences the wild journey of the Iboga initiation, and ends up permanently affected. (59.00)

Thursday Feb 22nd - 8.30pm
H.P. Lovecraft on Film
3hrs 40min

H.P. Lovecraft’s cult status and mystique is unmatched in the world of horror writing. His unique blend of trans-dimensionality and cosmic horror has spawned much imitation and even occult followers. This is a selection of the better attempts of adapting his “Mythos” into film.

Call of Cthulhu - Andrew Leman / Sean Brannery
Beautiful and artful reproduction of 1920’s style filmmaking by independent company of Lovecraft fans. The only film to be as true to Lovecrafts’ writings and aesthetics and to tackle the central story of the Lovecraft Mythos (46.44)

From Beyond - Stuart Gordon 1986
From the director who brought you “Reanimator”, a typically sardonic treatment of Lovecrafts story of the wonder and horror of the dormant pineal gland. A researcher has learnt to stimulate the pineal toup portals to other dimensions, but comes across something thats not too nice… (1.25.48)

Dagon - Stuart Gordon 2001
A blending of two stories “Dagon” and “The Shadow Over “Innsmouth”. A fishing village has sold its soul to the “Deep Ones” to the god of the depths, for the gift of gold. A touring yacht fatefully strands itself there, its’ subjects at the mercy of fishy half-breed infernals who shuffle eerily through the damp dank streets. (1.38.21)