She Is A Shaman | Full Ayahuasca Documentary (2024)

An Ayahuasca shaman balances hallucinatory rituals and her unusual daily life in this meditative documentary that explores the difference between the idolized shamanic figure and who they really are.

MYCO-COSMOS - Paul Stamets and Laraaji

MYCO Cosmos - A Journey Through Matter and Space

A guided exploration of biology, space travel and the interconnected universe led by famed mycologist Paul Stamets, with live accompaniment by new age musical legend Laraaji, which took place Nov. 4, 2017, at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Conceived and produced as part of an ongoing mycelial exploration between Fathomers, an LA-based creative research institute, and artist Phil Ross.

1984 - the 1956 film adaption

"The Anti-Sex League is Watching You"

Step into the dystopian world of "1984" (1956), now AI remastered in 4K from a public-domain, low-resolution source. An exploitation of the groundbreaking novel by George Orwell, this adaptation was funded by the CIA.

It brings to life the chilling vision of a totalitarian future where the fascist state in the form of Big Brother watches your every move. Starring the remarkable Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave, this classic film is more relevant than ever, and now you can experience it with stunning clarity and detail. Whether you're revisiting this iconic story or discovering it for the first time, this 4K remaster may be the best way available to watch the rare 1956 film adaptation of "1984".

👁️ Plot Synopsis: Set in a bleak, totalitarian future where the state exercises total control over every aspect of life, "1984" follows Winston Smith (Edmond O'Brien), a low-ranking member of the ruling Party. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records to align with the Party’s propaganda. However, as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the oppressive regime, Winston begins a forbidden love affair with Julia (Jan Sterling) and secretly questions the Party's authority. His rebellion leads to a dangerous confrontation with O’Brien (Michael Redgrave), a high-ranking Party official who has a terrifying plan for Winston's reeducation.

👥 Main Cast:

Edmond O'Brien as Winston Smith: The conflicted protagonist who dares to question the Party’s absolute power.

Jan Sterling as Julia: Winston’s love interest who shares his desire for rebellion.

Michael Redgrave as O’Brien: The enigmatic and ruthless Party official who controls Winston’s fate.

Donald Pleasence as Syme: Winston’s colleague at the Ministry of Truth, who becomes a victim of the Party’s purge.

David Kossoff as Charrington: The antique shop owner who plays a crucial role in Winston’s story.

📜 Film History: Directed by Michael Anderson and released in 1956, "1984" is one of the earliest film adaptations of George Orwell’s seminal novel. The film was produced at a time when the world was grappling with the tensions of the Cold War, making its themes of surveillance, censorship, and totalitarianism particularly resonant. Though it was made decades ago, the film’s stark portrayal of a dystopian future remains eerily relevant today. With this 4K remaster, viewers can now appreciate the film’s powerful imagery and gripping narrative with a new level of detail and clarity.

🌟 Critical Reaction: Upon its release, "1984" received critical acclaim for its faithful adaptation of Orwell’s novel and its compelling performances, particularly by Edmond O'Brien and Michael Redgrave. The film has since become a classic in the dystopian genre, admired for its exploration of themes that continue to resonate in contemporary society. This new 4K remaster allows audiences to experience the film in a way that was never possible before, with every detail of Orwell’s dark vision brought to life with stunning precision.

🎥 4K Remaster: This AI remastered version of "1984" presents the film in stunning 4K resolution, enhancing its stark, atmospheric visuals and bringing new life to its chilling world. The improved picture quality reveals details in the set design, costumes, and cinematography that were previously obscured, while the upgraded audio ensures that the film’s dialogue and score resonate with maximum impact. This 4K remaster is the ultimate way to experience one of the most important dystopian films ever made.

🔍 Keywords: 1984 1956, 4K Remastered, George Orwell, Dystopian Film, AI Remaster, 4K Ultra HD, Classic Cinema, Full Movie, High Definition, Vintage Cinema, Michael Anderson, Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, Donald Pleasence, Totalitarian Future, Orwellian Dystopia.

Play For Today - Pendas Fen (1974)

ginally broadcast in 1974 as part of the BBC's Play for Today series, Pendas Fen was directed by social realist director Alan Clarke and written by David Rudkin.

"I am nothing pure, my race is mixed, my sex is mixed. I am woman and man, light with darkness, nothing pure. I am mud and flame."

"Penda’s Fen is perhaps the most significant film to be made during the rural turn that, as William Fowler has noted, British cinema took in the early 1970s. A decline in manufacturing had led to the shrinkage of many urban centres, and that, combined with a post-sixties vogue for communes, free festivals and pre-industrial ways of being, inspired artists such as Derek Jarman (Journey to Avebury, 1971), William Raban (Colours of This Time, 1972), and Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo (Winstanley, 1975) to explore the submerged histories, altered states and radical possibilities of the British landscape.

Rudkin shows the English countryside as a place, not of becalmed continuity and ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’, but as a historical battleground and in constant turmoil. It offers wormholes and geysers, faultlines that fertilise, ruptures that release energy. It’s a philosophy of pastoral – and of what makes a nation – that sloughs off Little Englandism and Middle Earthism in favour of something less self-satisfied and more attuned to its lurking darknesses."

Raga A Journey Into The Soul Of India (1971)

Raga is a 1971 documentary film about the life and music of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, produced and directed by Howard Worth. It includes scenes featuring Western musicians Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison, as well as footage of Shankar returning to Maihar in central India, where as a young man he trained under the mentorship of Allauddin Khan. The film also features a portion of Shankar and tabla player Alla Rakha's acclaimed performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

The majority of the documentary was shot in the late 1960s, during a period when Shankar's growing popularity saw Indian classical music embraced by rock and pop musicians and their audiences. Financial problems then delayed production until Harrison provided assistance through the Beatles' company Apple Films. In addition to actively promoting Raga, Harrison produced the soundtrack album – a project that led directly to he and Shankar staging the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.

The film's working title was alternately East Meets West and Messenger Out of the East. In 2010, to coincide with celebrations for Shankar's 90th birthday, East Meets West Music released a fully remastered version on DVD, titled Raga: A Film Journey into the Soul of India. The expanded soundtrack album was also made available, via digital download.

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones is a 1989 Indian English-language television film written by Arundhati Roy and directed by Pradip Krishen. It stars Arjun Raina as the title character, with Roshan Seth and Arundhati Roy in key roles. The film also features Shahrukh Khan and Manoj Bajpayee, both then struggling actors in the Delhi theatre circuit, in small but significant roles. Set in the 1970s, in the National Institute of Architecture, New Delhi, the plot revolves around Anand Grover, known as Annie, a misguided visionary who gets into trouble for making fun of the principal, Y.D. Billimoria known as Yamdoot.

The film was the recipient of two National Awards in 1989.[3] It acquired a cult status in the years after it was made. The original print of the movie is lost. Previously, the only copies of the film in circulation were those that were recorded on Video Cassette Recorder when the film was screened on Doordarshan. However, camera recordings of these video cassette tapes were also made, and subsequently posted on YouTube to where they are still available now. The film was made for TV and never released theatrically. It was shown on Doordarshan in 1989.

The film was part autobiographical with Roy recounting her own experiences of studying in the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, a leading architecture institute in India. This was the first screenplay by Roy, the second movie by Krishen after his colonial-period drama Massey Sahib (1985). The film is noted for one of the earliest cinematic appearances of Shahrukh Khan.

The Beatniks (1960)

THEIR PASSWORD WAS MUTINY AGAINST SOCIETY! A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

Director: Paul Frees Writer: Paul Frees Stars: Tony Travis, Karen Kadler, Peter Breck Genres: Crime, Psychotronic film.

The Beatniks is an American crime film in the teensploitation genre directed by Paul Frees that was filmed in 1958 and released in 1959. It was also featured on the movie-mocking program Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Eddy Crane is the leader of a gang that robs small businesses for petty cash. At one point, his gang accosts the broken-down car of a music business executive, Harry Bayliss. Afterward Bayliss wishes to call a tow truck, so he goes into the diner where Eddy's gang is celebrating. Bayliss overhears Eddy singing to the jukebox and offers him a chance to audition for his variety program. Eddy accepts, passes his audition, and is given a spot on television. Eddy sings a two-minute song that is apparently stupendously successful, with Bayliss calling Eddy an "overnight sensation" and prophesying an astounding rise to fame, complete with a hit record, "a guest spot on every top show," and eventually culminating with "The Eddy Crane Show." Atop Eddy's newfound success, he also immediately begins making advances at Bayliss's secretary, Helen Tracy, in preference over his long-suffering girlfriend, Iris.

Andra takter (1985)

Sixten är punkare och spelar i bandet Anti-Cimex. Filmen följer honom och hans vänner - unga människor som inte vill leva det vanliga Svensson-livet, de vill festa och protestera mot svensk vapenexport.

Swedish film about punk culture and the band Anti-Cimex. The film follows Sixten and his friends, young people who will not live the orginary suburban life, and will party and protest against the Swedish weapons industry.

Ort

Göteborg

Längd

27 minuter

Medverkande

Sixten Andersson, Marie-Louise Waldestam, Subhumans, Peter and the Testtube Babies

Regi

Benny Frick

Manus

Benny Frick

Foto

PeO Olsson

Musik

Anti-Cimex

Producent

Benny Frick

Rättigheter

Tenfilm

Produktionsbolag

Frick Film

Produktionsland

Sverige

Utgångsmaterial

16 mm, normalbild (1,37:1), optisk mono, färg

Arkiv

Svenska Filminstitutet Läs mer om filmen i Svensk Filmdatabas

Musik delas ofta upp i kategorier och subkategorier. I slutet av sjuttiotalet exploderade punken i Sverige och övergick snart i postpunken, som inte var lika kompromisslös, men desto viktigare för svenskt musikliv på åttiotalet. Men det fanns de som höll sig kvar vid den hårda punkmusiken och mer anarkistiska livsideal. I Sverige kom en sådan kategori att kallas kängpunk och där brukar gruppen Anti-Cimex placeras. 

Detta är en kort bakgrund till musiken i Andra takter. Fast filmen handlar mindre om kängpunk och den svenska musikscenen på åttiotalet, och mer om två unga människor som inte kände sig bekväma med det vanliga Svensson-livet med arbete från åtta till fem. De ville inte arbeta, de ville festa och protestera mot svensk vapenexport. De ville åka till Jönköping och spela på en musikfestival, där bland andra det engelska bandet Peter and the Test Tube Babies stod på scen. 

Att frivilligt ställa sig utanför, att med dagens terminologi vara del av utanförskapet, var vid den tiden och i den miljön inte nödvändigtvis något negativt, ibland till och med ideologiskt förankrat. Rädslan för det vanliga knegarlivet och viljan att revoltera mot den äldre generationen är återkommande i andra svenska skildringar av punken, som Stig Larssons halvtimmesdokumentär Punkrock från 1978 och Johan Donners Ebba-the movie om punkbandet Ebba Grön

Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965)

Is a campy, low- budget, Avant-garde science fiction film directed by American underground Pioneer Mike Kuchar.

Set one million years in the future , the story unfolds in a dystopian world where humans have grown lazy and self-indulgent, relying entirely on robotic servants knowned as Fleshapoids to furfill their every need.

However one of this Robots rebels ,driven by a forbidden desire for freedom and love .

Blending melodrama ,satire and surrealism,the film explores themes of decadence ,rebelion and unchecked hedonism. With a visual style that embraces kitsch,exaggerated performances and hand crafted aesthetics ,the movie has gained a cult following as a quintessential example of 1960's underground Cinema.

The Kuchars playful use of narration ,campy costumes and DIY special effects highlight the film's charm.

Sins of the Fleshapoids is celebrated for its quirky ,subversive storytelling and remains a touchstone of experimental filmaking.

Otto Rahn - The Secret Glory

The complex story of Otto Rahn (18 February 1904 – 13 March 1939), who grew up amidst the ruins of Germany following its defeat in World War One. His parents awoke an interest in nature, myth and legend in him. At the time in Europe, the narratives of Christianity were being challenged and changed. He took up the legend of the Holy Grail and the heretical Christian sects that lasted up until the Inquisition from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The nature cults of the early 20th century that developed in northern Europe also no doubt fed into his thinking. Rahn wrote books about the Grail and the Cathars, one of the last mass manifestations of Gnosticism in Europe.

It seems Rahn was an outsider queer poet who was given a blank cheque by the Nazis to do his research. Of course, the Nazis wanted a particular result from the research; Aryan primacy and the negation of the dominant Christian morality. Himmler was vehemently opposed to Christian sexual morality and the "principle of Christian mercy", both of which he saw as dangerous obstacles to his planned battle with "subhumans". Rahn's work proved to be more complex and ephemeral than that. Rahn was also expected to participate in the theatre of horror that was developed by the Nazis. Rahn was a poet who dwelt in myth, a product of people like James Frazer and Robert Graves (who's book The White Goddess would not be published until 1948). But at the same time Rahn was within the inner circle of the SS, he participated in the establishment of the vast death machine that is now called the Holocaust and in the Nazi eugenics breeding program. But his mother was Jewish.

Rahn's homosexuality had been known to Himmler but, in 1937, it became the subject of difficulties with other SS officers, who had long contrasted their conduct with the open homosexuality common in Ernst Röhm's Sturmabteilung. Following a "drunken homosexual scrape", Rahn was assigned guard duty at the Dachau concentration camp in order to "toughen him up".

Deeply concerned by what he had witnessed in Dachau, Rahn offered his resignation from the SS in February 1939. This was accepted by Himmler. On 13 March, Rahn's body was found by local children in the forest near Söll (Kufstein, Tyrol), in Austria. Sixty years later, in an interview, one of those who found Rahn's body described finding "two empty bottles" next to it. He had frozen to death while under the influence of the sleeping pills. Rahn's death was privately ruled a suicide but was presented by Himmler to the SS as having occurred following a "mountaineering accident".

The film is made by Richard Stanley, a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre. He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992), both of which are considered cult classics. He was the original director of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), but was fired early into principal photography due to creative differences, an episode recounted in the 2014 documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. In 2019, he returned to feature films after more than 20 years, directing the H. P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space.