What do Governments know about UFOs? Will humanity
find a new home in the universe? Join UFO Researcher and Environmentalist David
Sereda as he embarks on a journey in search of a way to travel to the Andromeda
Galaxy 2.2 million light years away to find a new home for humanity. Along his
journey he explores Sustainability, UFOs, Crop Circles, Space Propulsion
Theory, Spirituality, and Human Ethics in order to solve the greatest riddle in
the universe: How can one travel faster than the speed of light and go anywhere
in the universe in an instant.
Love is born to boogie in this electrifying and
enjoyable romantic adventure about a Beverly
Hills teen who takes love for a spin with a boy from
the wrong side of the roller rink! Starring Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Roller
Boogie is the ultimate fast-paced, freewheeling 70s roller romp full of hot
bodies, cool skating and hard-driving disco music! Terry Barkley (Blair) has a
talent for the flute, a scholarship to Juilliard and her whole future planned
out until she falls head over wheels for a roller-boogie bad boy (Jim Bray).
But Terry may lose more than her bearings when the local roller park is
threatened by a shady development deal and the mob threatens to turn her boogie
hot spot into a disco inferno!
Birth of a new Festival, The Australian Film Festival screens solely Australian film content, and is open to
any medium, from feature and short film, to online content, television and
whatever can be classified as ‘film'. But that's only part of what they do. The
purpose of the festival is not simply the screening of Australian film. We're
also focused on the long term development of Australian film content in a
rapidly changing global environment and the building of audiences for
Australian film. And of course, we'll have a lot of fun along the way. And as
part of new venture the Mu-Meson Archives will be taking a retrospective look
at a peripheral side of filmmaking the educational film.
Mental Hygiene (washing the mind)
An evening of retrospective
Australian educational shorts. A freaky selection of scare cinema from the
50's, 60's and 70's. These films were primarily
made as a conditioning tool to warn the public of the many dangers of modern
day living. Utilising B cinema
exploitation techniques to ram the message home these productions range from
utterly hilarious to extremely gory and laid the ground work for future
Australian genre films such as Mad Max. ect.
Some of the topics to be screened will include drink driving, stranger
danger, ammunitions disposal, drug abuse plus much more. All
on 16mm film
For the past three months Miss
Death has been painting on a daily basis to recreate 30 (yes count them)
provocative Pulp paperback covers of 60's. Traversing the seamy side of the dim
novel she has dipped her paint brush into the worlds of the Lesbians (her
heritage), the gay male, the Occult, lost Science fiction worlds, a bit of
fetish and of course the side show freaks.
These colorful renditions of eye-popping cover art sit
In a variety of recycled frames. Opening 6-8pm and then Miss Death will swing
from the paint brush to the wheels of steel to DJ alongside of Diabolik.
Dy-no-mite and others in The Sounds of Seduction. A night of art music and fun
for all the family.
Container Gallery @Reverse Garbage
8/142
Addison RdMarrickville
ContainerGallery@ Reverse Garbage
6-8pm for art show and then Sounds till late
Monday 8th March
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
UFO's over Australia
After three decades of local research Jay Katz
presents a night investigating anomalous activity. Major Australian cases will
be reviewed, plus a rare screening of the 1970's Roger Climpson documentary UFO
Fact or Fiction. Some of these incidents include the Knowles Family Nullabour
Experience, The Gosford lights, The Min-Min Lights, Wycliffe Well plus many
more.
Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace -
and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays
Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first
wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents
his stepmother and feels erotically drawn to her; in desperation, he quickly
and aggressively drives her to the point of a psychotic breakdown. He then
quietly confesses his act of matricide to the stepmother and implores her to
off her husband and abscond with the insurance monies.
Incredibly over-dramatic "message" film
about a good girl (Jennifer West) and a good boy (Richard Evans) who fall in
love but make the dramatic choice of having sex. Soon the girl ends up
pregnant, which makes her feel like a slut and it also puts a strain on the
teenager's relationship. This is in the same company as Reefer Madness as far
as being overbearing in trying to deliver a message. There are some over the
top moments, which make for a few laughs but for the most part this is played
straight forward and tries so very hard to be serious. The biggest problem, are
the two leads who turn in horrible performances and they bring more laughs when
the film is going for seriousness. There's one great sequence inside an
abortion clinic, which was shot to look like a horror film and actually manages
to be just as creepy as the majority of horror films out in this time period.
Jack Nicholson has a small role as a hot rod.
With your hosts Jay Katz and
Coffin of The Naked City Darlo
Bar - Royal Sovereign Hotel 8.00pm
Friday 12th March
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Nomi,
was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual,
otherworldly stage persona. Nomi was known for his bizarrely theatrical live
performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature
hairdo which flaunted a receding hairline. His songs were equally unusual,
ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical music opera to
covers of 1960s pop standards like Chubby Checker's "The Twist" and
Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes". He is perhaps best remembered by
the general public as being one of David Bowie's backing singers during a 1979
performance on Saturday Night Live. Filmmakers such as Andrew Horn and
writers such as Jim Fouratt consider Nomi an important part of the 1980s East
Village scene, which was a hotbed of development for punk rock, music, the
visual arts, and the avant-garde. Although Nomi's work had not yet met with
national commercial success at the time of his death, he garnered a cult
following, mainly in New York and in France
.Nomi was one of the first celebrities to contract AIDS. He died in 1983 at the
age of 39 as a result of complications from the disease.
A selection of unusual
locations known for their anomalous activity that you wont find in the find
book. From the four corners of the globe we go in search of lake monsters,
Bunyips, Yowies, dinosaurs, ghosts, and UFO hot spots. Plus just to keep it
culturally current we check out windows of high strangeness for vampires and
witches. Maybe its not such a lonely planet after all.
When an incredibly rich racist (Ray Milland) discovers
that he's dying, he decides to have his head transplanted onto another body,
but his health slips away too fast for him to make any concrete plans. When he
wakes up, he's a little irked that his bigoted head has been sewn onto the body
of a black death-row inmate, played by the inimitable Rosey Grier (the famous
football player who enjoys knitting). THE THING WITH TWO HEADS is the camp
classic to end all camp classics, an uproarious film that has a large,
dedicated cult fan base. The special effects team even includes a very young
Rick Baker, who went on to revolutionize the use of SFX in film. While not
exactly THE DEFIANT ONES or IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, this surreal, absurd,
impossible-not-to-love film hits 1970s racism right on the head--er, or is that
heads?--leaving willing audiences with an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm $5 suggested donation
Wednesday 17th March
Texas Chainsaw
Trivia
Revamped, naughtier, bigger and better than ever
This week your hosts Jay Katz , Coffin Ed and Miss Death
of The Naked City take you on a wild ride.
The
Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies has been Canceled and in it's place is....
The First and only Australian Tour of the elusive artist Jandek has found itself double booked and has fallen into the open arms of the Archives. This maybe the most up close and intimate gig that Jandek will ever perform. It will not only feature the man himself with his full band, but also a rare screening of the documentary search for Jandek ... Jandek on Corwood. Be part of a very limited seating audience by booking asap on 9517 2010
Jandek on Corwood
PRESS RELEASE:
Hailing from Houston, Texas, Jandek is the musical project of an
outsider musician whose name and identity has been a mystery for over 30 years.
Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of dissonant and often
emotionally dissolute folk / blues through his label Corwood Industries.
Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of
folk and blues that border very closely on the avant-garde. Refusing to use any
form of traditionalism with structure, chords and tuning, Jandek has created a
stylized form of music that is entirely his own. Lyrically he mirrors the
country blues and folk traditions of East Texas, but sonically, he's in a
league of his own.
In 2004, a documentary was released entitled 'Jandek on Corwood'. It
documented Jandek's recorded history and the people that have had contact with
him, which is not many, as he had never played live and only granted one
interview, and that was back in 1985. Up until 2004 no one was certain of his
identity.
The mystery of Jandek's identity was unveiled in October 2004 when he
appeared for the first time live at the 04 Music Festival in Glasgow, Scotland.
He has since made a number of live appearances at festivals like All Tomorrow's
Parties, Pitchfork and SXSW.
Up until 2009, Jandek's
backing band consisted of musicians from bands such as Tortoise, Grails, Quasi
and Grouper - his backing band changed for each performance, depending on
who was available at the time. In 2009 he settled on a permanent rhythm section
from Glasgow, Scotland, which consists of Volcanic Tongue Records owner
and WIRE contributor David Keenan on drums and Heather Leigh on bass. Heather
Leigh plays alongside drummer Chris Corsano as part of Jailbreak and Christina
Carter as a member of Scorces as well as having an extensive solo back
catalogue with releases across labels like Not Not Fun, Wholly Other and Fag
Tapes.
Do you want to learn how to
knit, crochet or any other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social?
For the new ladies who are coming for the first time bring a friend. Boys are
welcome as long as they do a craft or something useful Mu-Meson Archives 4pm with a plate
With the proliferation of the
digital camera every second person appears to be having ghostly encounters that
can even be recorded on the phone. The Archives has edited a collection of what
we consider to be the most unexplained and provocative footage captured. Also
included is a rare episode of the Phenomenon Archives titled An Unknown
Encounter, chronicling a six year investigation by Barry Taft one of Americas
leading parapsychologists into a Californian family's encounter with an unworldly presence that was
captured on film and detection equipment .Plus bonus 16mm film screening of the
original 1970's In Search of episode Ghosts in Photography.
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must
sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other
ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying,
she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as
great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his
daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and
the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father? Subsidiary battles
with sex-starved zombies who have been put away too long, and the monkey men
who suffer from the same problem, imply that sexual deprivation can lead to
some nasty-tempered machos, even if they are zombies.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm $5 suggested donation
Wednesday 24th March
Marginalised Movies
David & Lisa (1962)
This stark and spare
look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new
American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two
adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed
youngsters. Dullea is David Clemens, who is placed in the home by his mother
because of his constant fear of being touched. Margolin is Lisa, a 15-year-old
schizophrenic who speaks only in rhyme, when she speaks at all. David rejects
the help of psychiatrist Alan Swinford (Howard Da Silva) but makes an emotional
connection with Lisa. Because of his contact with Lisa, David eventually opens
up to Swinford and his mother. But his mother is dissatisfied with his progress
and takes him back home. Home life, however, consists of his mother's
domineering ways and parental quarrels, so David runs away and returns to the
home for disturbed youngsters. But then an argument with Lisa leads to a
climactic confrontation.
Wednesday 24th March
Texas Chainsaw
Trivia is back
Revamped, naughtier, bigger and better than ever
With your hosts Jay Katz and Coffin Ed and Miss Death
of The Naked City
Barbara Hammer (NITRATE KISSES) spent most of her
30-year career making experimental films with a strong lesbian identity.
Therefore, this historical manipulation is a logical addition to Hammer's
canon. Here, Hammer has taken footage from lesbian history and subverted it
using voice over and juxtaposition to create a satiric view of the history of
lesbian visibility. Her techniques create a documentary that makes the claim
that lesbians were dominating society. Using everything from educational films,
newsreels, and stag pictures, HISTORY LESSONS is an interesting study in truth
versus reality.
If you have already been to
our first 2 mystery screenings you know we are not kidding when we say the
worst. We are just going to leave it at that and dare you to see this film
Utilizing rare home movies, archival footage, and
interviews, Matter of the Heart presents a film portrait of psychoanalyst and
Freud contemporary C.G. Jung, whose groundbreaking theories on personality,
archetypes, synchronicity, and the collective unconscious unified the fields of
psychiatry and spirituality. C.G. Jung was man whose extraordinary genius and
humanity reached far beyond the sometimes exclusive realm of psychiatry into
redefining the essential nature of who we are and what we
hope to become. Including a 1959 Jung interview with the BBC and excerpts from
an unfinished documentary.
"Slaughterhouse Rock" is one
of the best and least known horror films of the late ‘80s, taking elements from
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "An American Werewolf in London" to create
something that is startling and deserves a closer look. This film mixes demons,
a soundtrack by Devo, Toni Basil and Alcatraz,
so don't let the campy title throw you off. Alex Gardner (Nicholas Celozzi) is
having terrifying dreams of a demon that is torturing him while he sleeps. The
dreams come to life in his bedroom, but when he awakes, everything is back to
normal. The main concern with everyone around him is discovering what is
causing these bone-chilling demonic dreams. With the advice of his girlfriend,
brother (Tom Reilly) and dream specialist Carolyn Harding (Donna Denton, "Nashville"), Gardner
is convinced that he has to get to the source to discover the truth. He must
travel to the now-deserted Alcatraz, the
grisly murder site of several musicians a few years prior.
What happens next is what makes the movie so unusual;
for starters, the demon is 100 percent real, and in order to survive the night
at Alcatraz, the group will be helped by the
ghosts of the musicians that died there. Basil is the lead ghost and driving
force in saving the lives of the young college students. With a long career as
a choreographer and actress with appearances in "Head" and "Easy Rider," Basil
is probably most famous for her catchy little tune about a guy named Mickey.
Annandale Hotel 7.30pm $5 suggested donation
Wednesday 31stMarch
Texas Chainsaw
Trivia is back
Revamped, naughtier, bigger and better than ever
With your hosts Jay Katz and Coffin Ed and Miss Death
of The Naked City
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JJ (from Good Times), Jack Sargeant, Neil Hamburger, Diamanda Galas,
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