It's the Trivia Night that
people who normally hate Trivia Nights absolutely love! Every Wed with Jay
Katz and Coffin Ed from FBI'S Naked City Show (with Miss Death appearing
fortnightly)
Questions on Pop Culture, Trash Culture,
Politics, Music of all kinds, Film, Literature, TV, Scandal, Tabloid sensation
and just about everything bar Geography! Rub shoulders with filmmakers,
musicians, local eccentrics, neighborhood auteurs, dj's, students, artists, ex
politicians etc. etc. as you compete for some truly fantastic prizes. Every
week the jackpot prize The David Banda Basket could go off. Tremendous spot prizes all night and your chance to play EXTREME TRIVIA!
Exclusive to the Mu-Meson Archives The Australian Premier of
Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre
But first a word from the director Eddy Mort
In the early 1990’s when I lived in Sydney, I used to walk past a
strange interesting-looking storefront in inner-city Chippendale. The
window displayed a huge painting of an Alien head, and inside the store
was all manner of weird pop-culture items and artifacts. Well, the
place turned out to be the ‘Mu-Meson Archives’ , a wonderful mix of
obscure film, UFology, pop-culture and conspiracy theory – you know a
real alternative to everything else that was out there.
I got to know the Mu-Meson founders Jamie and Aspasia, and it was
Jamie (aka Jay Katz) who in 1993 out of the blue said to me “Have you
heard about those movies from the 50’s & 60’s where Mexican
Wrestlers would fight monsters?”
If you are in Sydney, the screening is at 8PM, (Crn Parramatta Rd
& Trafalgar St Annandale) together with a documentary entitled Tales from Mexico of Wrestling Politics & Religion and some informative narration and banter from Jay Katz and Miss Death themselves. Wish we could be there.
Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre Animated Mexican Wrestling feature by ex -pat Sydney siders Eddy Mort and Lili Chin. A
mysterious stranger leaves his isolated village in Mexico to seek help when his
village is about to be attacked by "Los Extremos," brutal army of
rudos terrorizing the land. The Stranger encounters a gifted young Mexican
wrestler, or luchador, Dragon Rojo Jr., who sees this as a chance to live up to
the legacy of his father and put together a heroic team of luchadores, just
like in the golden age of Lucha Libre years before. And so Dragon Rojo Jr. and
his newly formed team - Mr. Profesional, Rayo X, Sorpesa and Tsetse Fly - set
off to train and ultimately combat Los Extremos. But a surprise lies in store
for them, as the village of they have been asked to defend is in fact a
community of retired monsters from Mexico's golden age; the very creatures past
luchadores once treated as enemies! Los Campeones de La Lucha Libre is an all
ages animated feature featuring the classic battle of good versus evil, and the
struggle to live up to the legacy of one's forebears.
Tales from Mexico of Wrestling Politics &
Religion This 50 min documentary
examines the cultural tradition of Mexican wrestling and explores social class
and border culture through this mythical sport and spectacle. In Mexico the
wrestlers forge fictional mythological identities in contrast to their
working-class backgrounds, while audiences reward them with superhero status.
Ordinary people can transform themselves on weekends into larger-than-life
characters
Core of Corruption is a documentary film series which
details a comprehensive investigation into clandestine intelligence operations
and conspiracies. The project is surfacing exclusive whistle blowers, insiders
and critical evidence for the very first time. Over 2,000 hours of credible network
news clips have been surfaced for this ground breaking event, most of which
have never been seen since they aired and have never been available on the
internet. Some of the video news segments for this project, when requested from
the networks, were denied access to and corporate representatives would say
that the information sought does not exist or has been misplaced. Someone
doesn't want the public to see these stories, that when put together, establish
a conspiracy of the magnitude that could change the way one views the world.
Countless millions of people are being manipulated and lied to by a network of
individuals within government that work on behalf of private interests. The
individuals were involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Many of
those same figures are are connected to historical events that have shaped our
understanding of government crime. For instance, the Iran Contra affair
involved many figures that showed up in the 9/11 attacks.
Star
Crash (1979) Star Crash stands alone and a head of the pack of Star
Wars rip-off's.The lead in this
film is the sexy smuggler Stella Star
accompanied by her sidekick Akton. They are being pursued by the Chief
of the Galactic Police, Thor and the police robot Elle. After they are captured
and sentenced to hard labor (with Star for some reason retaining her sexy garb
in the prison camp), the galactic emperor commutes their sentences in return
for their aid in tracking down a missing ship. The ship in question was seeking
the hideout of the bad guy, Count Zarth Arn, who has developed a secret
super-weapon. The vessel was also carrying the emperor's only son. Stella and
companions set out on their search, traveling to several planets, including a
world of Amazons, an ice planet where they are betrayed by Thor, and a world of
Neanderthals where they discover a lifeboat from the lost ship. On the last,
Stella is rescued by Simon, the Emperor's son. At the planet's core is Zarth
Arn's secret base, much mayhem ensues. The emperor is defeated by Zarth, but
Stella and the robot Elle manage to destroy the evil Count in his fist-shaped
space fortress. The
cast included Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Robert Tessier, Christopher
Plummer and David Hasselhoff. The music is by John Barry. 16mm film.
Barely remembered, this sci-fi/comedy attempts to
cross FATHER KNOWS BEST with BRAZIL,
and is one of the most bizarre pics of all time (not successful, mind you --
but certainly bizarre). Directed by special effects wiz Tom Burman, it offers
up a futuristic vision that mixes unfathomable technology, slimy creatures and
pitch black humor within the framework of your typical domestic sitcom. John
Glover plays the unflappable father, Henry Hollowhead, who works at United
Umbilical, while Mom (Nancy Mette) spends the day preparing a sumptuously
disgusting dinner for hubbie's sadistic boss. Her "special" treat is
a thick, raw slice of a toad-like creature, wrapped in pre-processed dough.
Their youngest son, Billy, hangs out with a trouble-making friend (the
ever-creepy Joshua Miller, best remembered from RIVER'S EDGE and NEAR DARK);
older brother Bud plays an instrument that has a chicken-like creature strapped
to it; and a pre-stardom Juliette Lewis is 14-year-old daughter Cindy, who
sports a hot pink baby doll dress and misuses "softening jelly." On
top of all that, everything in sight is made out of umbilical tubing, from
phones to kitchen utensils. There's a tank in the living room, housing a pile
of tentacles connected to an ever-watchful eyeball. And feeding grandpa
involves a gigantic, hypodermic-like pump. Confused? You aren't the only one.
This movie plunges the viewer into a totally alien household, and doesn't
explain a thing. Of course, a few items are best left in the dark, like getting
"hopped up on butt polish." In terms of gorgeously offbeat production
design, this comes off like "Pee Wee Herman's Blade Runner".
With your hosts Jay Katz and
Coffin Ed of The Naked City
Darlo Bar 8pm Free to play
Friday 10th July
Kraftwerk & The Electronic Revolution
As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk's
contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in
1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Coldplay,
Siouxsie to Radiohead, this bizarre collective have
also proven partly responsible for entire genres to develop - electronica,
techno and synth-pop to name but three. This documentary reviews the career and music of
Kraftwerk, from their inception in the late 1960s (as pre-Kraftwerk ensemble
Organization), through their most celebrated period in the mid 1970s, and
culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s with the popularity of
synth-pop and techno. The film further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted in
and pulled away from the electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as
'Krautrock'. Sparing time also for many of the groups' contemporaries from the
same field, and tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary
music generally.
The
World According to Monsanto is an in-depth look at the domination of the
agricultural industry from one of the world's most insidious and powerful
companies. A bold, brilliant film and a definite must-see for anyone who is
interested in learning more about the multi-billion dollar, omni-powerful, and
highly dangerous Monsanto. .French filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin spent
some 20 years hearing about Monsanto before she set out to understand just what
Monsanto was all about. Robin posits that perhaps the company's past
can shed some light on what the company is all about today. Monsanto
started out as one of the world's largest chemical companies and is responsible
for the creation of Agent Orange (used during the Vietnam War), Aspartame,
Bovine Growth Hormone, Polystyrene, PCBs and GE crops (genetically-engineered).
No other filmmaker has ever created such a compelling and damning case against Monsanto.
The only other individual to come close to exposing the ugly reality of Monsanto's
contribution to the planet is best-selling author Jeffrey Smith with his book Seeds of Deception.
PLANET
WARS (1978)
Made in less than a month, this Star Wars rip off was
released in Brazil
a full 5 months before the original Star Wars hit Brazilian theaters,
causing it to be a South American smash hit! Starring the Brazilian 3 Stooges,
The Tramps; the film features just about every Star Wars character you
can think of; as well as some of the most embarrassingly bad sets, special
effects and disco dance numbers you will ever find in a movie. The majority of
the movie feels like a throw away Sid & Marty Krofft show complete with
shot on video effects, amazingly retarded monster masks, and astoundingly
stupefying musical numbers! A true must see bad movie rarity, and it's actually
much more fun to watch than any of the Star Wars movies.
It's the Trivia Night that
people who normally hate Trivia Nights absolutely love! Every Wed with Jay
Katz and Coffin Ed from FBI'S Naked City Show (with Miss Death appearing
fortnightly)
Questions on Pop Culture, Trash Culture, Politics, Music of all kinds,
Film, Literature, TV, Scandal, Tabloid sensation and just about
everything bar Geography! Rub shoulders with filmmakers, musicians,
local eccentrics, neighborhood auteurs, dj's, students, artists, ex
politicians etc. etc. as you compete for some truly fantastic prizes.
Every week the jackpot prize The David Banda Basket could go off.
Tremendous spot prizes all night and your chance to play EXTREME
TRIVIA!
Darlo Bar 8pm Free to play
Friday 17th July
Homo
Sapiens 1900
Many students of the history of World War II find Nazi
Germany and the atrocities that took place therein gruesomely fascinating. We
are constantly admonished to never forget the tragedies of the Holocaust and of
the Second World War. Less studied are the mainstream ideas that contributed to
Nazi policies of institutionalized murder in the name of "race
hygiene." Eugenics, or racial hygiene, was a well-known
"science" when the Nazis co-opted it for their political use in the
years leading up to the Second World War. The modern eugenics movement was
founded in England
in the late 1800s by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin who is better
known for coining the phrases "nature vs. nurture," and for
developing the fingerprinting techniques still used by law enforcement officers
today. By the early 1900s, eugenics was widely practiced throughout the western
world. There was even talk of creating a national eugenics register in the United States, to maintain information about all
United States
citizens and their malformities. This would help insure that any propagation of
the human race worked toward evolution rather than devolution. The ideas of
eugenics and "race hygiene" were first introduced in Germany around
the turn of the century by Alfred Ploetz, who proposed that a panel of doctors
should decide whether a newborn baby should be allowed to live, based on its
likelihood of being completely healthy and normal. Those babies not strong
enough to survive without medical attention would be left alone to die. Those
that did not meet the panel of doctors' criteria would be quickly exterminated.
Homo Sapiens 1900 traces eugenics from its founding with these two men
through its development and ultimately its acceptance and abuse by the National
Socialist party.
Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick Comedic
Missives from The American Underground (USA)
Danny Plotnick
roared into the underground film world in the 1980s. Fueled by his love of punk and alternative
culture and infected with d.i.y. spirit, he started making films that captured
a similarly snarly attitude. His films
were pegged as bawdy, bad-mouthed and beautiful, straddling the line between
high-brow and low-brow art. It's no
surprise that his work has screened from the MOMA in NYC to mortuaries in Baltimore to the
Independent Film Channel. With little
opportunity to screen this type of work in the 80s, Plotnick took to the road,
projector and films in trunk, screening in bars, warehouses and cafes. Plotnick trail blazed a path for the
underground film world that exploded in the early 90s, a scene that would
ultimately champion his work.
Working in the pre-digital
age, Plotnick was a fierce advocate for super 8 filmmaking. He took this 1960s home movie medium with
limited capabilities and made work that stands tall regardless of format.
The films on tonight's
program include Swingers' Serenade, a
titillating tale of suburban sexual malaise; I, Socky, a rogue sock monkey hits the town on a big day out; Steel Belted Romeos, a turbo-charged
tale of California road rage; Skate
Witches, a glimpse into the world of a 1980s female skateboard gang; Flip About Flip, a tribute to comic genius
Flip Wilson.
Plotnick received the Grand
Prize at the Underground Filmmaker Film Festival, an award based on his body of
work plus his brand new film Out of Print. Out of
Print is a loving ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s, a time when
unearthing quality culture was a real treasure hunt.
Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet or any
other craft? Miss Death will be crocheting some hyperbolic coral reefs so if
you want to contribute to the Powerhouse Museums exhibition (opening in late
August) then here is your chance. You don't have to know how to crochet its
easy to learn quickly. 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.
Illuminati is a name that refers to several groups,
both historical and modern, and both real and fictitious. Historically, it
refers specifically to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret
society founded on May 1, 1776. In modern
times it is also used to refer to a purported conspiratorial organization which
acts as a shadowy "power behind the throne", allegedly controlling
world affairs through present day governments and corporations, usually as a
modern incarnation or continuation of the Bavarian Illuminati. In this context,
Illuminati is often used in reference to a New World Order (NWO). Many
conspiracy theorists believe the Illuminati are the masterminds behind events
that will lead to the establishment of such a New World Order. Confusing the
issue further is the fact that there are also several modern fraternal groups
which include the word "Illuminati" in their names. Tonight we
examine the evidence to this reality.
Say, have you heard the one about the shy,
strange-looking high school girl who lives with her religious-nut parent and is
tormented by her wealthier class-mates, until she uses her telekinetic powers
to knock 'em dead? "Jennifer" is a hand-me-down version of
"Carrie," from which it borrows all of the above, plus a shower
scene, final scare and a couple of costumes that look just like Sissy Spacek's.
If it doesn't copy the precise ending of "Carrie," the reasons appear
to have been financial rather than aesthetic ones. Instead of marshaling an
entire special-effects department to help Jennifer trash her
hometown, the film merely shows her summoning up "the vengeance of the
viper." After that, giant snakes appear. They bite all the right people.
When scientists a hundred years into the future discover
a "duplicate" Earth on the other side of the sun, the stage is set
for tense science fiction adventure and suspense. Determined to find out what
this new world is like, the Western nations of Earth set up an expedition
headed by former astronauts Roy Thinnes and Ian Hendry to reach the new planet.
All goes according to plan until the spaceship makes a crash landing on a
planet some three weeks earlier than expected. Have the space travelers
actually returned to Earth or are they on some strange mirror-image world where
they must prove who they really are or die trying? This imaginative space
adventure offers a journey few will ever forget. The special effects are the
work of animation specialists Gerry and Sylvia Anderson of Thunderbirds fame.
With your hosts Jay Katz and Coffin Ed of The
Naked City.
Darlo Bar 8pm Free to play
Thursday 23rd July
Directors Cut: A Revealing Documentary about a Daughter
and her Fraudulent Father: Bruce & Me Filmmaker
Oren Siedler's personal exploration into her troubled and unusual relationship
with her brilliant, charming, con-artist, white-collar criminal father takes us
around the world, from Australia to USA and Cuba. The backdrop for Oren's
journey is candid, verite style interactions with her eccentric and quirky
family members. Y You'll meet her cranky, four-foot-five, 97-year-old
grandmother; her zany artistic mother living on an Australian Aboriginal
community; and her father's young sexy, cunning Cuban girlfriend. Viewers are
guaranteed an unforgettable journey where Oren's big questions take a backseat
to the weird and wonderful world of life on the road with Bruce.
About the Director
Raised in rural Australia and all over the USA, Siedler's
work is heavily informed by her experiences growing up in two completely
different worlds. The first was inhabited by a mother on a spiritual quest,
bringing her in contact with the Dalai Lama. The other was her birth-father's;
a Zen-like outlaw/con-man straight out of a Jack Kerouac novel. After a year
playing violin in an Australian all-girl rock band, Siedler entered the film
business in California
in consummate entry-level fashion, working in various crew positions in several
feature films, including John Water's Hair Spray with New Line Cinema. With practical experience under her belt, she
moved back to Australia
to absorb film theory and artistic tutelage. She graduated with an Arts Degree
in Communications from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), with a major
in Film& Video Production/Direction and Screen Studies. As a student, she
amassed credits - producing and directing numerous short films and
documentaries, while working professionally on shoots with several Sydney-based
production companies. Her run up the production ladder included stints as First
and Second Assistant Director, Continuity, Assistant Editor and Stills Photographer.
Hell's Bell's
the Dangers of Rock n Roll Music (1989)
Journey through the dark side of rock as Hell's
Bells unmasks the message behind the music. There you will look
squarely into the face of something beyond human potential - the spiritual
power of rock and roll. What is wrong with this man? Is this just a good time
or is there something of a deeper significance going on here as well? What type
of effect does this music have upon people? Is it only rock 'n' roll? These questions and others will be answered
as Hell's Bellstakes you on a journey to the heart of rock 'n'
roll. You'll discover what it can do to an egg. Your head. Your life. And your
eternal soul. We'll explore rock's relationship to sex, violence, suicide,
drugs, rebellion, and, most importantly, the occult. Come with us now as we
join our host, Eric Holmberg, Founder and Director of Reel to Real Ministries
for Hell's Bells: The Dangers of Rock 'n' Roll. It's a riot!!!
Mike McCarthy has been called
the Godfather of Independent Cinema in Memphis
but don't hold that against him. Writers who don't understand McCarthy's
work call him an "exploitation auteur". He's really just a bad
ass cartoonist who could never meet a deadline and realized films were quicker.
He likes the Golden Age of American pop culture and makes grandiose
statements like "Nothing of any original value has occurred since the
death of Elvis Presley." McCarthy is sometimes privately visited by his
old films; ghosts of starlets, great rock and roll, and memories of property
once owned and sold to make films. McCarthy was conceived in a drive-in and
abandoned under a comic book spinner rack on a hot Tupelo night. McCarthy's mother once
sent him a large can of popcorn with a one hundred dollar bill inside.
Ever since, he's been making movies under the moniker of Guerrilla
Monster Films (since 1994). McCarthy's brand new feature film (a pure Memphis product):
CIGARETTE GIRL is having it's world premiere at REVELATION. He wished
more Americans knew about his work but in the meanwhile he wants to meet the
Australians.
Cigarette
Girl
It's 2035 and smokers are demonised for their dirty habit, forced into their
own sleazy suburbs, known simply as the Smoking Section. This neighbourhood is
bad and mainstream non-smoking society hopes its nicotine addicted inhabitants
will just vanish. Put simply: it's not the place you want to be walking through
at night. In the Smoking Section Cigarette Girl - a classic McCarthy lead, all
underwear, curves and va-va-va-voom - spends her days selling smokes for $50 a
packet. Until her grandmother's smoking cough turns out to be a little more
serious. Then Cigarette Girl decides she's going to stop smoking cold turkey,
but, whenever prohibition is enforced organized crime is close behind and
quitting may be the easier task facing our heroine.
Architects of Control: Program One
Mass Control and the Future of Mankind
...man is the source of all
coming evil - Carl Gustav Jung
Produced by Michael Tsarion and Blue Fire Film,
Architects of Control: Program One, explores humankind's future and the post human
world. Will the "perfect" human be a dumbed down, regimented inhabitant of a
cyber purgatory created by unseen elites? Will the children of tomorrow be
smiling depressives of a technocratic dystopia?
Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David
Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing
one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal
taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of
water, slowly realizes his own involvement with the aborigines...and their
prophecies.
It's the Trivia Night that
people who normally hate Trivia Nights absolutely love! Every Wed with Jay
Katz and Coffin Ed from FBI'S Naked City Show (with Miss Death appearing
fortnightly)
Questions on Pop Culture, Trash Culture, Politics, Music of all kinds,
Film, Literature, TV, Scandal, Tabloid sensation and just about
everything bar Geography! Rub shoulders with filmmakers, musicians,
local eccentrics, neighborhood auteurs, dj's, students, artists, ex
politicians etc. etc. as you compete for some truly fantastic prizes.
Every week the jackpot prize The David Banda Basket could go off.
Tremendous spot prizes all night and your chance to play EXTREME
TRIVIA!
Darlo Bar 8pm Free to play
Friday 31st July
Found Footage Fest
What started with a VCR and a
stack of tapes in their living rooms has busted out into public venues and
sold-out screenings. The Found Footage Festival is an exhibition and
celebration of the finest in found footage art and it is a program best
experienced in the company of like-minded connoisseurs. The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring
odd and hilarious clips from videotapes found at thrift stores and garage sales
and in warehouses and Dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Geoff Haas,
Joe Pickett and/or Nick Prueher host each screening and provide their unique
observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the
curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated
to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures
and serves them up in an entertaining 90-minute celebration of all things found.
Lookout for more coming your way.
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