THE INCAL from Pascal Blais Animation Studio
The guy who did the older Incal animation has revamped the project. via theairtightgarage.
Bookmark:
Phase III – Stealth Is.
“In the quietude, you may find solace in knowing.” “In knowing, you will find the solace of quietude.”Archive
Tag: Alejandro Jodorowsky
It seems like this year’s Cannes festival is providing a more bountiful crop of new projects than normal, and this film might be one of the best, or at least one of the most exciting for sci-fi nerds. Emerging at the fest is a doc called Jodorowsky’s Dune, which seeks to tell the story of the attempt by wildman Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to adapt Frank Herbert‘s novel Dune in the mid-’70s.
Production designs (by artists like H.R. Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud) have floated around for years, but the full story of the film that never was has never quite been told. If you have even a passing interest in Dune or the development of sci-fi films, this doc should go on your watch list.
Frank Pavich, who made the doc about New York’s ’80s hardcore music scene (appropriately titled N.Y.H.C.) is directing, and he has secured interviews with Alejandro Jodorowky, H.R. Giger and “other surviving members of the original team.” Those interviews are what might make this doc a sort of holy grail for those of us who have long wondered what Jodorowsky’s Dune might have been like.
It’s possible that you don’t know why this version of Dune is legendary. Maybe you’ve never seen Jodorowsky films like The Holy Mountain or Santa Sangre. (The latter is currently streaming on Netflix.) So I’ll let the director explain it to you. The short form, however, is that his vision for the movie was insane. Viz:
To show the process of illumination of a hero, then a people, then a whole planet (which in its turn is the Messiah of the Universe since by giving up its orbit, the holy planet leaves to spread its light throughout all the galaxies)…
I did not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me Dune did not belong to Herbert as Don Quixote did not belong to Cervantes, nor Edipo with Esquilo.
In my version of Dune, the Emperor of the galaxy is insane. He lives on an artificial gold planet, in a gold palace built according to not-laws of antilogical. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him. The resemblance is so perfect that the citizens never know if they are opposite the man or the machine…
In my version, the spice is a blue drug with spongy consistency filled with a vegetable-animal life endowed with consciousness, the highest level of consciousness. It does not stop taking all kinds of forms, while stirring up unceasingly. The spice continuously produces the creation of the innumerable universes.
Oh, and to play the Emperor? Jodorowsky wanted Salvador Dali. Find the full text of the essay from which I cribbed those quotes at Duneinfo.com.
From Slashfilm, Via @Popjellyfish
Bookmark:
It’s been a long, long time coming and while it’s not yet here we finally have some firm news on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s long rumored King Shot. Despite having Marilyn Manson and Nick Nolte on board to star – and both of them putting up some of their own money for the production – the film remained stalled for several years until David Lynch’s Absurda came on board as a production outfit – they’re also doing a film with Werner Herzog – a little while back. And now? Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond appeared on Chicago’s WGN Radio recently to promote an unrelated project and spilled to a caller that he expects to be shooting King Shot from May to July of this year. So take heart, cult film fans, the cultiest of them all is coming back.
Bookmark:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Equinox Festival
equinoxfestival.org
Dates and Lineup announced!
June 12-14th London
More artists and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks!
ALL NEW WEBSITE with media links, artists/speaker bios, and ticket info.
The Equinox Festival, a 3 day media arts festival dedicated to
spiritual discovery and mystical tradition, will take place in London
June 12-14.
We are pleased to announce the following confirmed artists for this
years festival. Stay tuned for further development and surprise guests.
Music performance:
John Zorn
Æthenor A
di Newton’s T.A.G.C
Z’EV
Dieter Muh
Pietro Riparbelli- K11
Pestrepeller
Hati
Kinit Her
MORE TO COME IN THE FOLLOWING WEEKS
Ritual Performance:
Arktau Eos
Barry William Hale’s NOKO
Raymond Salvatore Harmon
Lecture/Presentations:
Ralph Metzner
Erik Davis
David Beth
Edwin Pouncey
Paola Igliori
Masamba Fall
James Curcio
Carl Abrahamsson
Kendall Geers
Philip Farber
Aaron Gach
Matt Wiley
MORE TO COME IN THE FOLLOWING WEEKS
Films -
Paola Igliori
American Magus & The Seed of Joy
Craig Baldwin
Mock Up On Mu
Harry Smith
Heaven and Earth Magic
Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Holy Mountain
Maya Deren
Ritual in Transfigured Time & Divine Horsemen: The Living
Gods of Haiti
Raymond Salvatore Harmon
YHVH & Tree of Knowledge/Tree of Life
MORE ARTISTS TO COME! SURPRISE GUESTS!
Tickets go on Sale March 20th via Wegottickets.com
Bookmark:
