The FIX is On

Daniel Pinchbeck

Director Tao Ruspoli's first feature film, opening in New York City on November 20, takes on the subject of heroin addiction. In this interview, the founder of the Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative (LAFCO) discusses his work, his vision, and his views on filmmaking in a time of media transformation. (more)

What's Your FIX?

Trish Nguyen

Share with the world what you can't live without and win a chance to attend the premier of the movie FIX on November 14th in New York.

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Adventures of Power: The Power of the Beat

Ari Gold

"Adventures of Power," an award-winning comedy about air-drummers and the American Dream, is being released independently starting October 9. Here, filmmaker Ari Gold speaks with co-conspirators Adrian Grenier, Elvis Perkins, and Ethan Gold about the film. (more)

Kino-Glaz/Kino-Pravda: Remix

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

Dziga Vertov wanted to use cinematic realism to find freedom in a world where anything was possible. To me, DJ culture has inherited that same impulse -- "keeping it real" is a mantra one hears in Hip-Hop at every level. [Video] (more)

Metamorphosis: Making an Ayahuasca Documentary

Adam Elenbaas

A new documentary, "Metamorphosis," is perhaps the most gripping and intense filming of ayahuasca ceremonies and personal shamanic journeys ever made. In this interview, I talk to the director, Keith Aronowitz, about the process of making his film. (more)

Divine Awakenings: A Talk with Nikos Katsaounis about "Entheogen"

Adam Elenbaas

Nikos Katsaounis, director/producer of "Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within," discusses the film and its place in the cultural moment. Join us for a screening of the film Friday, Jan. 30, at the Wild Project in New York. (more)

The Sound of Ice: Discussing "Terra Nova"

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

In this interview with Elena Glasberg, I discusses my new multimedia performance work Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, open-source media, music history, new relativism, the need for more paradox, and the sound of no government. (more)

Terence McKenna's "Alchemical Dream"

Tristan Gulliford

In the film The Alchemical Dream, Terence McKenna explores the curious history of European alchemy – a mystical science now lost to history, that once sought to reveal "a magical theory of nature." (more)

The Golden Compass: The Anti-Narnia?

Tony Torn

Unlike the successful movies based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, the film version of Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass failed in U.S. theaters – perhaps due to right-wing critics who labelled it a "stealth atheism" campaign. With multi-million dollar movie franchises at stake, a controversy surrounds both authors' work that challenges our society's limited vision of the divine. (more)

Hollywood Apocalypse

ST Frequency

Hollywood's blockbusting directors are gearing up to unleash a veritable plague of apocalypse films centered around the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012. (more)

Light Bright

Erin Shaw

Joshhua White's "liquid light" and audio-visual collaborations celebrate "the Ecstatic Moment" at the Issue Project in NYC. RS has two free pair of tickets for the event. (more)

Idiocracy: A Depraved and Hilarious Tale of Corporate Conspiracy

Jill Ettinger

Mike Judge's film Idiocracy is a hilarious peek at what humans might be like 500 years from now. It's a description that's hauntingly fitting today. (more)

Sex with Insects

ST Frequency

In Green Porno, a short film series from the Sundance Channel, actress Isabella Rossellini explores the bizarre rituals of copulating bugs. (more)

Goodbye Albert!

Daniel Pinchbeck

This Sunday night in New York, Reality Sandwich presents a commemorative film screening followed by a discussion of Albert Hofmann's life and legacy. (more)

Council of Grandmothers

Erin Shaw

Thirteen indigenous grandmothers "work toward spiritual solutions for healing our planet" in the New York premiere of For the Next Seven Generations. (more)

Alexander Supertramp and the Failure of Individualist Escape

Andrew William Smith

Sean Penn's film Into the Wild rekindled the debate surrounding Christopher McCandless's dramatic departure from mainstream culture, and his tragic demise. It forces us to ask: how can we preserve “human community” without “returning to civilization?” (more)

A Rising Dream-Star

Adam Elenbaas

A hotly anticipated animated film series, "Illuminated," is scheduled to release this year, featuring the spiritually charged adventures of a dream-star named Aya. [Teaser] (more)

The Kubrick Gaze

J.F. Martel

Stanley Kubrick's films belong to the Gnostic hyperreal. They are psychedelic tours of history's dream galleries. They deal with power and the creation and destruction of values. Most importantly, their core is mystical, even shamanic. (more)

Attack of the Killer Shrooms

sati

Magnolia Pictures' film Shrooms invites a humorous critique of Hollywood's sensationalized depiction of drug culture. (more)

Goodbye, Genre

Kal Cobalt

Old categories for media are falling to the wayside as audience taste broadens and the borders between genres blur. We also lose our group identities in the process. Is that a triumph or tragedy? (more)

Go Fish

Kal Cobalt

David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish addresses creativity, meditation, and the human condition. (more)

Ayahuasca Meets the Old West

Adam Elenbaas

In this interview, visionary filmmaker Jan Kounen discusses his ayahuasca- inspired spaghetti western Renegade. (more)

Hollywood: The Next Record Industry

Douglas Rushkoff

To watch the AMPTP (movie and TV producers) disinformation campaign against the Writers Guild of America (screenwriters) is to watch a replay of the record industry's profit-motivated suicide of the 1990's. (more)

The Shamanic Motion Picture

Morgan Maher

Homer Simpson has a visionary experience, The Boohbahs beam colored music from a rainbow vortex and Francis Ford Coppola goes from Apocalypse toYouth. (more)

What Would Jesus Watch?

Jonathan Phillips

[Sex and Spirit] • In this podcast, Jamye and I discuss Morgan Spurlock’s newest film, What Would Jesus Buy?. Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping embark on a difficult and hilarious spiritual crusade across America to save Christmas from consumerism. “If we could change Christmas, we could change the whole year,” says the good reverend. Could one movie do all this? PLAY PODCAST (more)