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February 26, 2007
Raiders of the lost Aryans Fra Kjettersk Kjeller: 28.02.2007:
Forfatter Heather Pringle: Raiders of the Lost Aryans: Himmler’s Ahnenerbe and the Quest for Occult Power and a New Golden Age
Vi vet det er kort tid siden forrige Kjeller, men vi fikk en mulighet vi bare måtte slå til på.
Dersom du har sett filmene om Indiana Jones, husker du sikkert nazi-arkeologene som roter rundt i Himalaya og Egypt på jakt etter overnaturlige krefter. Men visste du at disse tvilsomme typene er basert på en sann historie?
Deutsches Ahnenerbe var et forskningsinstitutt opprettet av SS-sjef Heinrich Himmler. Hensikten var å bevise at den ariske rasen var overlegen, og kilden til all virkelig kunnskap og kultur. Instituttet skulle også spore den ariske rases vandringer fra sitt urhjem på Atlantis, og finne magiske krefter som kunne erstatte moderne vitenskap.
Ahnenerbe sysselsatte en merkelig blanding vitenskapsfolk. Bruno Beger var i sann nazistisk ånd opptatt av folks skaller og ikke skydde noen midler for å legge dem til samlingen sin. Mens eventyreren og fjellklatreren Ernst Schäfer trengte inn i det hemmelighetsfulle Tibet, dro andre dro til Norge for å dechiffrere budskap fra helleristningene.
"Himmlers Rasputin", Karl Maria Willigut, var i følge eget utsagn inkarnasjonen av guden Tor og Tysklands egentlige konge. Mens Ahnenerbe-kollegaen Otto Rahn var på sporet av Den Hellige Gral og skrev bøker som hyllet Lucifer. Og da allierte styrker rykket nærmere, forsøkte forskningsinstituttet å få laget en kopi av selveste Tors Hammer...
Historien er så vanvittig at det nærmest bare er det faktum at Ahnerbes ytterste funksjon: Å tilrettelegge for Holocaust, som minner oss om alvoret.
 Kanadieren forfatteren Heather Pringle har skrevet boken The Master Plan, det definitive verket om Ahnenerbe. Hun kommer til Oslo for å forelese ved en konferanse ved Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter ved Universitetet i Oslo, og vi er veldig stolte over at hun også avlegger oss et besøk. Her blir nok snippen litt løsere. Foredraget blir selvfølgelig på engelsk, men siden
forskningsformidling er Pringles fag, regner vi ikke med at språket blir noe problem.
Siden dette er et litt ekstraordinært arrangement, har vi ikke booket inn noen gjeste-DJ for anledningen, men vår faste stab kommer til å sørge for den stemningen som er en viktig del av en kjellerkveld.
Som vi tidligere har gjort når vi har tatt opp temaer som kan tiltrekke seg ubehagelige folk, minner vi om at vi forbeholder oss retten til å bortvise gjester. Men vi minner også om at vi aldri har trengt å gjøre dette, og dermed regner vi med at vi bare vil møte det hyggelige, oppegående og dannede publikumet som jo tross alt er grunnen til at vi driver med dette.
Velkommen til en kveld litt utenom det vanlige!
Velkommen onsdag 28. februar til våre nye lokaler i Den Gode Café, Fredensborgveien 13. Vi åpner dørene til kjelleren kl. 19, og det koster 50 kroner å komme ned. Aldersgrensen er 18 år.
Kart til Den Gode Café // Heather Pringles bok // HL-senterets hjemmesider
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February 06, 2007
Jodorowsky out May 1st on dvd It has taken WAY too long, but Alejandro Jodorowsky's delirious masterpieces EL TOPO and HOLY MOUNTAIN are now (well, soon ...) finally out on dvd from abcko, having been only marginally available in Italy and Japan in the past. The films come with commentaries, trailers, photo galleries, new interviews and deleted scenes. The films are available individually, but the best deal is to spring for the box set at the same price, when added up. The box also includes his debut FANDO Y LIS, the documentary "La Constellation Jodorowsky", early unreleased short film LA CRAVATE and two soundtrack CDs.
From ABCKO: ABKCO Films will release Alejandro Jodorowsky’s trio of mind-bending classics, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Fando Y Lis, on DVD for the first time ever. These astonishing films, which have been fully restored and remastered, will be available as a special limited edition collector’s box set featuring exclusive rare bonus materials. The box set will be available for an SRP of $49.98, with El Topo and The Holy Mountain also available separately at $24.98 each.
Originally released in 1970, El Topo quickly caught the imagination of movie audiences, becoming a landmark in independent film-making. The early screenings at New York’s Elgin Theater sparked the Midnight Movie phenomena, catalyzed by an endorsement from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic El Topo (played by writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky) tries to defeat four sharp-shooting rivals on a bizarre path to allegorical self-awareness and resurrection. As it seeks an alternative to the Hollywood mainstream, El Topo is also the most controversial quasi-Western head trip ever made!
 Jodorowsky’s high budget follow up effort, The Holy Mountain, takes his psychedelic allegorical mastery to another level. Grotesque, mystical and sacrilegious, it is an excursion into the meaning of earthly wealth and immortality.
Rounding out this unique set is Jodorowsky’s first full-length feature film, Fando Y Lis. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal, it caused an uproar in the avant-garde community when it premiered in 1967 in Acapulco.
Among the extras included in this collector’s box is previously unseen footage, a feature on the restoration process, an exclusive interview with Jodorowsky, optional director commentary tracks, subtitles, two special CDs of the films’ soundtracks and a separate DVD of the first film ever made by Jodorowsky, La Cravate.
New book from Creation: Anarchy & Alchemy.
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February 02, 2007
Look back on Anger Fantoma Films finally presents, after working on it for over 5 years, Kenneth Anger's films on dvd, at least some of them, with a volume 2 to follow, I guess:
Fantoma Films’ special edition DVD hits stores on January 23, 2007.
“It’s time that Kenneth Anger’s work became more available, because he is, without a doubt, one of our greatest artists.” – Martin Scorsese
Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON (II) books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture.
A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger’s work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of a spell or incantation.
Covering the first half of Anger’s career, from his landmark debut FIREWORKS in 1947 to his epic bacchanalia INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME, Fantoma is very proud to present the long-awaited first volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world.
 In production for over 5 years, THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER VOLUME 1 is easily the most requested title in Fantoma Films’ history. Painstakingly restored by Fantoma, these shorts represent the beginning of the independent film movement as we know it today and Anger’s revolutionary use of blending film to music has often been credited as giving birth to the music video. The films contained in this set include: FIREWORKS (1947), PUCE MOMENT (1949), RABBIT’S MOON (1950, shown here in the rarely seen 16 minute version), EAUX D’ARTIFICE (1953), and INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (1954).
THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER VOLUME 1 contains the following special features:
High Definition transfers from newly restored elements.
Screen specific audio commentary for all films from Kenneth Anger.
Rare outtakes and behind-the-scenes images.
Restoration Demonstrations.
A 48 page book with a written appreciation of Kenneth Anger by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, exclusive to this release, extensive notes for each film, rare photos, never before seen sketches for Anger's unproduced film PUCE WOMEN, and more.
From amazon.com: "Recently restored by the UCLA Film Archive, Kenneth Anger's difficult-to-see early films are finally collected here onto DVD, alongside optional fascinating commentary by Anger himself. Scores of Anger fans have previously persevered through horrid rented VHS copies of these films, due to their inimitable beauty and strangeness. Anger is renowned for filmic experimentation that portrays invented occult or druggy subcultures while formally rejecting conventions of blockbuster filmmaking. As a result, he has also become the unofficial godfather of the music video, for his groundbreaking use of soundtracks that, in these early films at least, meld classical music with '50s bubble gum pop and '60s folk for a hypnotic, psychedelic effect."
Kenneth Anger bio at sensesofcinema
Kenneth Anger at Wikipedia
Interview at ratso.net
Article at guardian.co.uk
Book by Alice Hutchison
Book by Jack Hunter (ed.)
Out-of-print book by Bill Landis, ANGER, cursed by Anger, still available directly from the author.
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