The Australian film classification board notified the director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, Richard Moore, that it could not screen L.A. ZOMBIE, the latest film by Canadian auteur Bruce LaBruce, because it would be refused classification. Classification is usually NOT a prerequisite for festival screening.
The Melbourne Film Festival has in the past presented controversial Continue Reading

On July 13, 2010, the Lower House of Parliament of France banned the use full body veils. This law has been voted because this type attire does not go with French values of equality between men and women. Safety is also another issue. It is important to be able to identify someone on the street Continue Reading

Re_Re-Education
is the title of the exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. Dammbeck’s films will also be screened during this exhibition. Among them is THE NET, available here on realeyz.tv.
Lutz Dammbeck (born 1948) came to film from the fine arts and discovered animation as a means of expression and source of experimentation in the Continue Reading

More police accountability: new Amnesty International report and campaign in Germany (a film on realeyz.tv about an a police officer who, although not guilty, falls victim to the machinations of the State Saving Privat Mikheev.)
“Nothing to Hide”: This must also be valid in Germany when the police are brought to justice for excessive use of Continue Reading

Amos Poe, director of No Wave/post punk film classics such as THE FOREIGNER and NIGHT LUNCH as well as the more recent Warhol homage EMPIRE II, will see a busy fall. His latest film La COMMEDIA di Amos Poe raised $20,000 for post production completion (target was $12,000) on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. La Continue Reading

With great sadness we just read that Fugs singer-songwriter and poet Tuli Kupferberg died today. Below is the New York Times report:
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July 12, 2010, 4:01 pm
Tuli Kupferberg, Poet and Singer, Dies at 86
By BEN SISARIO
Tuli Kupferberg, the poet, singer and professional bohemian who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the Continue Reading

Wal-Mart, Auchan, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) are amongst those international companies who are fueling climate change. This was the result of a just published study done by Greenpeace. These global corporations are also pushing the Sumatra tiger and the orangutan to the brink of extinction. The reason: they use and sell paper products made from Continue Reading