You are invited: Need for Swede 2!

South Africa's only home-made movie event is back!

RSVP here!

After a highly successful debut night in August, Need For Swede returns to The Bioscope on Thursday the 27th of September. The event will be the second installment in a trilogy of nights designed to celebrate hand-crafted movie remakes in the spirit of Michel Gondry's “Be Kind Rewind” and we want you to get involved!

Create your own DIY remake! Use what you have, get your friends involved, craft your own piece of sweded magic and see it on the big screen

of Johannesburg's only independent cinema! It's fun! It's easy! It doesn't even need to be good!

For the second Need For Swede we will be screening all 4 of the first South African swedes, created for last month's event:

THE GOONIES
by Tess, Henco & Mark

CASTAWAY
by PJ Kotze and his magical Open Window students

SIGNS
by Lovechild

DISTRICT 9
by Cool your Jets

PLUS all new swedes created for NFS2!

PLUS PLUS PLUS bonus swedes from our American friends at Swede Fest!

(side note, all Need For Swede films will be sent over to Swede Fest to be screened at their events across the US. WOW!)

To get involved mail benrausch at gmail dot com

PRIZES!!!

Joburg super-blog, Another-Day, will be running a contest to find the most popular Need for Swede entry! After the third episode of NFS, all swedes will be posted to the blog where people can vote for their favourites!

Greenside's Odd Cafe is sponsoring a full dinner in their basement exhibition space for the winners!

Runners up will win prizes from a dream team of local DIY brands, including:

Vouchers from vintage fashion super-store Asseblief!

Exclusive NFS edition of vinyl stickers from decor wunderkids Mikado!

T-shirts from design monsters Doktrine!

Music & merch from local record labels KRNGY & SMACM!

Plus movie tickets from our home, The Bioscope!

Rebel Alliance 5 Trailer!

Illustrations and animations from The Rebel Army have started rolling in. Things are looking pretty amazing. If you want some proof, here's the trailer for Saturday:

With all the artists getting involved in this, the guestlis for the night is huge. I'm not sure how many open seats there are gonna be in The Bioscope. You may want to book some tickets here.

Till then Rebel Scum!

Animation Jam welcomes Ricky The Rocket Panda!

I am very happy to announce the latest addition to the team collaborating on this month's Rebel Alliance Animation Jam is also our very first international participant! Welcome to the Rebel Alliance Rocket Panda!

Rocket Panda, know to the authorities as Riccardo Albertini, is a motion designer from Bergamo, Italy. His wonderfully cute name and logo, love of Star Wars and passion for creating beautiful animation was a clear sign he was a perfect fit for our motley crew of rebel scum. Plus he's got mad skills - just check out his reel!

With Rocket Panda on board the total number of animators participating in this project is now 22 (and counting)! A lovely collection of human beings with a very diverse variety of backgrounds they are:

1) Ben Rausch (Cool Your Jets)
2) Cameron Lowry (Turn Your Lights Up High)
3) Daneel Malgas (Awewolves)
4) Derrek Pitts
5) J Matthew Nix
6) Jarred Pereira (Jestr)
7) Jason Sutherland
8) Jim Nicholson
9) Gordon Bakkes
10) Lodewyk Barkhuizen (Planet Future)
11) M.J. du Preez (Doktrine)
12) Matt McFarlane (Cool Your Jets)
13) Neo Majafe
14) Philip Davies (Sheer Shurikahn)
15) PJ Kotze (Planet Future)
16) Riccardo Albertini (Rocket Panda)
17) Richard van Beek
18) Silas Lekgothi (Pencils & Crayons)
19) Stuart Ziegler
20) Sylvia McKeowen (Muis)
21) Terry Adams (Pixel Ninja)
22) Werner Redelinghuis (Cool Your Jets)

To say I'm excited about seeing how this is gonna turn out would be quite an understatement!

You are invited: Rebel Alliance 2!

Buy tickets here!

RSVP here!

Jozi's only rock and roll/ animation/ film mash-up night is back with Rebel Alliance 2 “Attack the Clones”!
For this month's installment we've lined up:

Poseidon Adventure!

Our live act for this month, unveiling a brand new show, taking you along with the legendary Oom as he travels through time and space!

Swart Koffie!

A short film by PJ Kotze; Racist Lizard-people, a flying boer, Proffesor Mystery & The Voortrekker Monument collide in an explosion of B-Grade Afro-Sci-Fi Awesomeness.

Earthlings!

A collection of local music video's celebrating South African landscapes, with gems from Bateleur, A Skyline on Fire, Wreslerish and Balcony.

Slave Race!

An unruly new Rebel Alliance monthly feature! For it's debut installment, expect rebellious words from George Carlin, set to animation by Matt McFarlane.

Martian Martian 2004-6!

The lastest release on SMACM; a posthumous offering of various songs from the now dead, genre-defying bedroom noise-pop producer, Martian Martian. Complied with a zine illustrated by Jean de Wet, lucky Alliance attendees can win copies and for the rest it'll be playing in The Chalkboard Cafe before and after the event.

“Pixel Pirates” vs “Turn your lights up high”!

The city's most creative visual hackers are back with more eye-melting goodness.

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I probably don't need to mention the fact that I'm excited about this.