Doco

EAT THE SUBURBS takes the oil debate from the bowser to the backyard and follows Melbourne's "permablitzers" as they prepare for the end of the oil age... one garden at a time.

A film by Tanya Curnow.

For more info, check out:

www.permablitz.net

American Drug War : The Last White Hope details the journey of Producer/Director Kevin Booth  trying to understand the complexity and paradoxes of the ongoing drug war in America after losing three members of his family to legal drugs such as alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs.  Through a wide variety of interviews with users, dealers, DEA officers, CIA operatives, the former US Drug Czar, prisoners, wardens, doctors, medical marijuana administrators, lawyers, victims and rednecks the documentary covers a huge range of the the opinions and issues revolving around this highly controversial issue.

Iconoclastic writer-magus Alan Moore explains his personal philosophy of how all forms of art are literally magic. An excerpt from the documentary 'The Mindscape of Alan Moore', a portrait of the artist as contemporary shaman, someone with the power to transform consciousness by means of manipulating language, symbols and images by Shadowsnake Films.

The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about contemporary climate change, set in a future trying to understand how we let the situation deteriorate when we had so much information in front of us. Produced by creators of McLibel, and starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off)  as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Shot in the summer of 2009 by Darius Devas from Being Films

 Kymatica is a fascinating meta-science doco-essay on the nature of consciousness and evolution, weaving together different theories from astropsychology, the cosmic octave, heart politics, morphogenesis, cancer and psychic parasitism, babylon, language and alienation from the true self, common law, money and word magic, general conspiracy theories, transpersonal therapy and shamanism.

"Zeitgeist Addendum" by Peter Conrad 2008.

 "We are seeing how important it is to bring about in the human mind a radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness - a crisis that cannot any more accept the old norms." -Krishna Murti

On the morning of Friday 21st of November, a peaceful action by conservationists in the Upper Florentine was targeted by violent logging contractors, with one activist kicked in the head and blockade infrastructure attacked with a sledgehammer, seriously endangering two activists . This occurred while a Forestry Tasmania employee watched on.