The Shining Path
What:
The Shining Path
Where:
The Carlton Hotel & Studios, upper levels, 193 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
Launching Sat Aug 4, 6.30pm (invitation only)
Exhibition open Tues-Fri, 4-8pm until Fri Aug 10
How much:
Free
An exhibition, a film launch and a party in one. Siren Visual, ThreeThousand and Neon Parc team up with sparkling gurus Coopers and TIRO to celebrate the screenings of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and El Topo at MIFF this year, and salute their release on DVD after 35 years in the wilderness. (We are pretty excited to be co-presenting this; one of us has a frog mask for the party already.)
John Lennon championed him (funded a movie in fact), Dennis Hopper used him and Marilyn Manson loves him. While critics have been quick to gush about some counter-cultural filmmakers, it has taken far too long for Alejandro Jodorowsky to get the credit he deserves. Maybe it's because he allegedly once stated that "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." There's no denying, however, that his '70s cult classic El Topo is the cinematic godfather of the 'Midnight Movies'. The Holy Mountain (scandal of Cannes in '73) is a decadent flood of existential symbolism and possibly the most expensive film ever made.
Curated by Neon Parc, The Shining Path brings together a collection of psychedelic, abstract, and free-form works by artists Dan Arps, Trevelyan Clay, Nathan Gray, Rachel Jessie-Rae and Noël Skrzypczak in homage to Jodorowsky's aesthetic and his obsessions with well psychedelics, mysticism and immortality.
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off
Keywords: Film
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