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!

We do this all the time: Need for Swede 01!

REBEL ALLIANCE 8

Need for Swede 01

The Bioscope Independent Cinema

11 Aug 2012

document by Olivia Mortimer

The Home Movie Factory opens this weekend!

After weeks and weeks of hard work by a very dedicated little team, The Home Movie Factory will finally open it's doors this weekend!

The opening weekend has sold out, but you can head HERE to make bookings for future dates!

On Thursday night, The Bioscope are celebrating the launch of their grandest project to date with an opening event that should be pure awesome! Your humble narrator will be picking out a bit of a soundtrack and doing some VJing. I can not wait to project visuals onto a screen the size of the giant one they have in MOAD!

Not even sure if there are any tix left, but the Bioscope just messaged their mailing list, offering up 50 double tickets for the event. RSVP to info@thebioscope.co.za to try grab a pair!

Click this pic for giant sized floor plan awesomeness!

All HMF photos hijacked from the intagram of Bioscope head honcho Russel Grant AKA rusky_boy. Follow him. For your health!

You are invited to remake movies for Need for Swede 2!

Following on the roaring success of Need For Swede, I'm happy to announce the sequel here and now!

Need for Swede 2 will be happening at The Bioscope on Thurday the 27th; giving all you sweders more than a month to whip up some home made magic for us!

NFS2 will be the second installment of a 3 part series. Along with our friends at Another Day, we've lined up an insane bundle of prizes for the most popular swede made over the course of this trilogy!

P.S. If you're a little confused about this business; last month's explaination is right here and here!

Need for Swede 01!

Introducing Need for Swede; South Africa's first DIY blockbuster remake super-jam!

RSVP here!

Across August, September and October, Rebel Alliance will focus on curating and presenting hand-made homages to Hollywood hits, in the style of Michel Gondry's "Be Kind Rewind".

Need for Swede is an open event. All sweded films will be shown on in the month they're received. Our favourite swede's from August will roll over to be re-screened at next month's installment. After our final event in October, fans will be able to

vote fore their favourite swede through Another Day. The team behind this winning remake wins a massive hamper of awesome from a selection of the finest DIY brands in South Africa.

NEED FOR SWEDE RULES:
1) Keep it under 5 minutes.
2) No post production - do all your special effects in-camera!

GUIDELINES:

1) Take what you like, mix it with some other things and make a new thing!
2) Use what you have!
3) Bring it home!
4) Have fun!

Sweding is fun and easy! It embraces the human element; there's no such thing as a "mistake" in a swede!

Send questions and submission to: benrausch@gmail.com

Sweding 101:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i5Rd8x4OJoY

Taxi Driver swede:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jccW-xudoD8

This event has been created in anticipation of the Joburg opening of Gondry's "Home Movie Factory"!

http://www.facebook.com/TheHomeMovieFactory

You are invited to remake movies!

This is easily one of the most exciting posts I've ever made on this old blog.

The Home Movie Factory is an interactive exhibition by French super-director Michel Gondry. In September and October, The Bioscope will be bringing The Factory to Johannesburg!

This alone is pretty damn exciting news for me, but it get's better:

Your humble narrator was asked to design the look and feel of the South African version of this exciting film experiment! This was a total dream project for me; for over a decade Gondry has been one of my greatest creative heroes. His hand-crafted aesthetic and DIY approach to film-making and animation have been a HUGE influence on me. Being asked to bring my own style into designing the visual identity of a project that came from his brain was just too much for my brain to handle! Once I came to grips with the fact that this was really happening, here's what I came up with:

What's more, Cool Your Jets (my animation super-team) combined our powers in making a promo video to spread the word about the event!

While we still have a little while to wait before the Joburg Factory opens it's doors, I've put togther a little warm up event, in the form of the next Rebel Alliance!

The idea of an open call for people to remake movies for Rebel Alliance has been bouncing around in my head for ages. And with the HMF on it's way to our city, I can't imagine a more awesome reason to do this here and now!

If you're reading this I would LOVE for you to get involved, whoever you are!

If you're not sure how to swede, here's a little explanation:

And for a fine example of swedeing at it's best, here's Gondry's take on the fantastic Taxi Driver!

We do this all the time: Rebel Alliance 6 (pt.2)

REBEL ALLIANCE 6

Make Overs and Greenisforturbo album launches

The Bioscope

26 April 2012

documented by Hanro Havenga

  

 

 

You are invited to Rebel Alliance 7

Rebel Alliance is all about one thing: breaking the rules. With that in mind, we're breaking our own.

For this month's installment of Rebel Alliance, we're breaking away from having a live band in the Bioscope. instead, we're proud to present to you 3 mini-sets from 3 of the ciy's most wild VJs. Drawing inspiration from their favourite TV-shows, these VJs will each perform a 15 minute power set, soundtracked by a pre-recorded mix by a DJ friend. Prepare your optic receptors for visual bliss from my minds of:

CHINXXX

(soundtrack by Marc Latilla)

DERRICK PITTS

(soundtrack by Casioheart)

BEN RAUSCH

(soundtrack by Sassquatch)

For the non live section of the night, we will be screening SHORTY SHORTS! This special selection of surreal/ spook/ sci-fi animations, clips, experiments and LOLs, has been hand-crafted and hand-picked by some of the finest rebels the alliance has to offer including:

Lindi Goosen, Patrick Dinneen, Awewolves, Phil Davies, Doktrine, Matt McFarlane, Stuart Coutts, Karien Goosen, PJ Kotze, Alex van Rensburg, Matt Suttner and other purveyors of fine bite-sized weirdness!

If you have made (or simply love) something that you'd like shown as a part of Shorty Shorts, mail suggestions to benrausch@gmail.com.

Doors open: 8PM

Cover: R40

RSVP here!