Dreadheads: Portrait of a Subculture

Dreadheads: Portrait of a Subculture. The award-winning documentary by Steven R. Hurlburt and Flournoy Holmes provides a fun, witty, incisive trip down an unexplored tributary of Grateful Dead fan culture. Featuring interviews with authors (David Gans, Blair Jackson, Steve Silberman), musicians (Bob Weir, Jimmy Herring, Dave Schools, John Bell), academics and the heads who populate the scene. Original soundtrack music by Spunhuny.

Wooks (2022)

We live in an age of the Spectacle. Where looking like something means you 'are' it. A wook is short for wookie. Plural: wooks. The dirty, vagranty variety of hippy. Almost always unemployed, following around jambands or festivals, and ripping people off. It is clearly a negative term (which I had never heard before now). But watching this short doco that takes 'wooks' as its subject, I have another issue with the culture the term represents. These people seem to be very isolated in themselves. They don't even seem really to relate to each other, outside the visual of looking at one another. They are compared online to jugaloos, but I think even those that are 'down with the clown' have a more cohesive community. Wooks is about the remnants of a dream, that actually died for those not willing, or unable, to leave mainstream society behind IN THEIR HEADS, sometime around 1969. Wooks is a portrait cast in a dirty pool by the roadside of a society that values appearance and distraction over substance.

The Doors Are Open 1968

The Doors Are Open is a 1968 black-and-white documentary about the American rock group the Doors. It was produced by Jo Durden-Smith for Granada TV and directed by John Sheppard and first aired in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1968. The programme combines footage of the Doors playing live at London's Roundhouse venue, interviews with the band members and contemporary news snippets of world current affairs - protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention, French riots, statements from politicians and footage of the Vietnam War etc.

The Outback Eclipse Story Psytrance Goa Festival Last Light Films (Full Movie)

The 'Outback Eclipse Story' follows the story of a festival..to celebrate the unique natural phenomenon that is a total solar eclipse. Set deep in the heart of the South Australian outback this feature length documentary details what happens when thousands of global citizens travel to one of the harshest environs on earth to experience a total eclipse and the magic and freedom that surround it. It tells the tale of a pilgrimage, that of a collective people who long to experience the mysterious in an unknown land far from the realms of restrictive socio-cultural communities to a place of freedom where laughter, love, magic and natural phenomenon find a home

Syd Barrett: Up Close and Personal

A 2007 documentary. The rise and fall of original Pink Floyd front man Syd Barrett is charted in this documentary, which tells the whole story from the formation of Pink Floyd, through Barrett's creative genius, his shocking slide into psychiatric illness and finally to his tragic and untimely death. Includes interviews with many who knew and worked with him.

Hvíti víkingurinn (The White Viking) (1991)

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless Christian, wants to remove all traces of non-Christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to Christianity.

Grateful Dead England 1970 (The Lost Film)

The lost documentary of the Grateful Dead's first trip to England in May of 1970. As the story goes, the camera crew was dosed during filming and the project was abandoned. Leaving the film in a rough unfinished state.

The film features some great interviews and dialogue with the Dead, including the most extensive interview I have ever seen with Pigpen. There is a long sequence with Jerry and Micky before playing at the Hollywood 70 festival where they are clearly tripping. Jerry inparts some wisdom according to how the world looks for him. The fashion and the recording and music gear featured are a treat as are the amazing old cars in the background along with shots of London at the time.

The Hollywood Music Festival was held at Leycett in an area called Hollywood on the grounds of Ted Askey's Lower (pig) Farm at Finney Green, between Silverdale and Leycett, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on 23 and 24 May 1970. It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the performance of Jose Feliciano and Mungo Jerry, and featured such notable bands as Free, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Colosseum, Family, Black Sabbath and Traffic. The company responsible for the festival was Onista Ltd, who promptly went bankrupt unable to pay festival staff. Onista was an offshoot of Eliot Cohen's Red Bus company, with Ellis Elias and Elliot Cohen as the promoters.

Count Dracula (1977)

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Produced by the BBC (in the then standard video/film hybrid format), it first aired on BBC 2 on 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book.

Fringe | Window on Collections: Vali Myers

Explore the life and work of beloved Melbourne artist, dancer and free spirit Vali Myers in this special Window on Collections event.

Cutting her own unique path, Vali Myers lived a bohemian life that was true to herself. With her bright red hair, dramatic eyeliner and facial tattoos, Vali turned heads wherever she went. She was known not only for her exquisite art but for an approach to life that continues to captivate our imaginations.

Join us for a screening of The painted lady (2002) documentary, in which director Ruth Cullen captures Vali Myers at her iconic studio in the Nicholas Building in the heart of Melbourne, a lively environment where she painted, drew, drank and danced with those who her rare soul enchanted. In Vali’s own words, ‘When you’ve lived like I have, you’ve done it all.’

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Library staff member Fiona Jeffery with guests Ruth Cullen and art historian Tracy Spinks. A viewing of Vali’s artworks, diaries and artefacts in the State Collection will also be available, as well as live folk and Romany music performed by Vardos, who feature in the film. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about an incredible figure in Melbourne’s art history.

Please note: this event will be livestreamed and recorded, including the film screening. The 26-minute film will be available to watch online for one week after the event, after which it will be removed. The panel discussion will remain online to watch at any time.

If you would like to know more about the film The Tightrope Dancer, or purchase the film, please head to Ruth Cullen's website: www.ruthcullen.com/product-page/the-tightrope-dancer-the-painted-lady

This film is unrated and includes sexual references. Viewer discretion is advised.

Jimi Hendrix Experience | Live in Maui | Full Concert 1970

 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience on July 30, 1970 live in Maui. Some footage and audio has never been heard in 50 years. Just click on the image and it will take you there.......