Melb - Premiere Screening - Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness

[RonnySimulacrum]

Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) presents a Melbourne premiere double feature film screening

 

Ticket are limited to less than 185, so get in quick. There are of course also discounted tickets for folks with concession/hardship and also First Nations people.

 

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FILM ONE

Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness is a part-animated feature length documentary film by producer / director Rob Harper.

 

Take an animated trip into the depths of the human mind with three brave pioneers of the 1950/60’s - Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Alan Watts. The film presents three psychedelic trips by these world-famous authors that together changed them, and Western culture, forever.

 

Combining stylish, minimalist animation with a rich, immersive soundscape, Journeys creates a unique cinematic spectacle, inviting you to relive the highs - and the lows - of the psychedelic experience from the edge of your seat.

 

Sixty years later we put these historic trips into a modern context, sitting down with twelve leading current thinkers to ask: "What can expanded states of mind teach us about ourselves, the world and our place in it?"

 

“An ecstatic voyage beyond the gates. Thanks for the trip.”

 

TONY GRISONI 'FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS'

 

“This film is a beautiful rendition of the eternal search by humans for a gateway to the great mystery.”

 

TAV SPARKS, AUTHOR OF 'THE POWER WITHIN'

 

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FILM TWO

Icaros: A Vision is a film shaped like a shamanic journey, steeped in a psychoactive brew, exploring fear and destiny in the jungle of the mind. A film by Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi.

 

Her medical options exhausted, an American woman travels to the Amazon in search of a miracle. Thanks to a young ayahuasca shaman who is losing his eyesight, she learns instead to confront her ‘susto’: the disease of fear.

 

Icaros: A Vision is a story about fear and the release from fear – the fear of illness and of death, but also the fear of life and living. It’s about the possibility of living through one’s fear – which is what the Amazonian plant Ayahuasca is good at getting you to do. Centred on the nightly ceremonies that are the main feature of shamanic retreats, Icaros revels in darkness, replicating a shamanic journey.

 

The film mixes in elements of reality. Set in an actual Ayahuasca retreat in Peru, it features real shamans and indigenous non-actors from the Shipibo community, mixed in with western actors. Aspects of the film are based on co-director Leonor Caraballo’s true experiences. She had metastatic breast cancer when the shoot began. Although she dedicated herself to the project until the very end, sadly she died before she could see the film finished.

 

The film is also driven by the conviction that acknowledging the power of plants is the best way to change the jeopardised future of the Amazon – itself like a dying patient. The exploitation of Shipibo lands and communities by oil and timber companies continues. Over the next 20 years, massive tracts will be destroyed to produce only enough oil to sate U.S. demand for, at the most, two weeks. The men and women who have the knowledge of healing plants are finding few in the younger generation who will cultivate their practices. Thus part of the film’s goal is to bring attention to the work, life and knowledge of the Shipibo Conibo people.

 

Icaros: A Vision is a filmic tapestry about the meeting of cultures, a West in search of its lost soul and the indigenous Shipibo adapting their expansive practices and unique view of the universe. Finally, the story takes place in Iquitos, the same town where Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo was shot more than 30 years ago, and the hotel Casa Fitzcarraldo hosts a key scene in the film.

 

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Tickets Link - https://www.trybooking.com/572891

Facebook Event Page - https://www.facebook.com/events/398788161073174/

EGA web page - http://www.entheogenesis.org

 

Edited November 4, 2019 by RonnySimulacrum

[RonnySimulacrum]

Hi folks, just an update that this screening is more than 50% sold out already 

So with less than 4 weeks till it takes place I suggest getting your tickets soon and make sure you can get your hands on them before they sell out.

See you there Melbourne folks 

[RonnySimulacrum]

Hey everyone, just a quick prompt that there only around 25 tickets left for this Melbourne screening now.

 

So yes if you're in Melbourne get to it as I love to see some SAB folks there. 

 

;-)

R

Edited December 11, 2019 by RonnySimulacrum

[RonnySimulacrum]

Hi SAB folks

 

The screening sold out, but I had some tickets on hold for the crew that I have released back into the system now.

So try your luck at the tickets link if you wish to come - https://www.trybooking.com/BGPMH

[RonnySimulacrum]

Hi, As you all know this has sold out.

 

However, we are looking for 1 maybe two volunteers for Thursday night to help as ushers and perhaps help with ticketing or the EGA info table.  

 

I thought I would ask here and keep it in the family. You will be doing around one hours work (maybe just over) and see 95% of the film/programing. 

 

You need to be able to get to the venue in the CBD by 6:15 pm.

 

PM me asap if you can do it, i need your full name, email and mobile number. 

 

Ronny