You are invited to Rebel Alliance 3!

I'm very happy to invite you to this one: Sometime last year I stumbled across a free-to-download EP from a Cape Town band I'd never heard of. On my first listen of Bateleur's "Mountain" I totally freaked out and proceeded to listen to it again five times over before leaving work, heading to band practice, playing the EP for The Mirrors and seeing them freak out in much the same way I did. Ever since then Bateleur have been the one local band ELM have most desperately wanted to play with live. Now, more than a year down the line, this dream is finally coming true; Bateleur will be heading up to Gauteng to play some shows and celebrate the release of their latest music video. One of these shows just happens to be the next Rebel Alliance. needless to say I can't wait for this night to come around.

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Jozi's only music/ animation/ film cross-over night makes it's final appearance of 2011 with Rebel Alliance 3 "Retirement of the Sith". Expect a night of audio and visual thrills featuring:

Bateleur!

The Cape Town 5-piece bring their unique brand of instrumental awesomeness to The Bioscope for the first time!

Eyes Like Mirrors!

Alliance favourite's ELM, armed with the power of cinema rock mayhem. continue their crusade against The Evil Empire.

Slave Race 2!

The second installment of Matt McFarlane's animated rebelion! This month: Secret Societies and their subversive impact on South African history.

Teen Creeps!

The premier screening of this debut film from upstart awesomeness collective, “Lovechild”!

I'm further away than I usually am!

Coinciding with their live performance, Bateleur unveil their highly anticipated new music video, directed by Christopher Bisset.

“Turn Your Light Up High” vs “Pixel Pirates”!

Jozi's renegades of technology return with a brand new bag of freshly hacked video and lighting tricks

You are invited! Rebel Alliance takes off!

Okay, this is a really exciting one:

I'm very happy to announce I'm starting up a new monthly night at my favorite independent cinema - The Bioscope! I'm planning something complete different to the dance parties I've thrown in the past. Instead I'm planning a night where 68 people can get together, take a seat and enjoy a selection of short films, animations, live music, VJing, visual hacks and hopefully projects that blur the lines between two or more of these. As with my thinking with Dynamo, I really hope to try create some kind of beautiful, big thing by combining the powers of the lovely creative community we've got going down between Johannesburg and Pretoria. How exactly things will play out, only time will tell, but i can say I am pretty damn excited about what we have planned for the debut Rebel Alliance!

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EYES LIKE MIRRORS

Full live show!

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VAMPIRE9000

Celebrating the premier screening of the music video for "Colours", animated by Cool Your Jets, produced by James Carrol.

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FUZZY JOHN

A short film by Russel Grant, soundtracked by Joao Orechhia.

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TURN YOUR LIGHTS UP HIGH vs PIXEL PIRATES

Joburg's most blindingly fun visual hackers, unveiling their latest creations.

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JAYSYNTH vs THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE

To celebrate the launch of his debut EP, Jaysynth presents a whole new score to the 1904 French Sci Fi classic.

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These are dark days. A great evil has fallen across the systems. The citizens of The Empire, enslaved by shadowy figures, are turned into an army of identical clones. Banging their heads against walls to the soundtrack of soul-less machines marching further and further into the darkness.

While the dark-side has corrupted or stamped out almost all those who stood to oppose it, there are still a handful of warriors of the light that survived. In a time like this, these final knights of light-side are left with only 1 option; they must band to together, jump into far cooler looking star-fighters, launch themselves out into space and collectively fire a proton torpedo of pure awesomeness right up the exhaust shaft the monolithic dark forces that stand against them. The time has come for the Rebel Alliance to rise, so sign up and start fighting the good fight!