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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Straight Jacket Film Festival 2020 ''The cure for the Corona Virus''

The year 2020 may be remembered as the "Lost Year" in Cinema, but the Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival stands ready to save us all. This innovative online festival operates years ahead of the mainstream film industry, curating the most daring and unconventional movies from around the world for viewers to enjoy from home—particularly relevant if pandemic restrictions continue.

Audiences will experience the finest in outsider cinema: from cursed movies and aviation disasters to African mafia narratives, conspiracy theories, Antichrist comedies, and the best of Experimental & Independent Underground Cinema. One might wonder if our minds are prepared for this year's bold selections, and if international circumstances will permit the festival to proceed as planned. In truth, this film festival offers the perfect antidote to coronavirus isolation—stay indoors and immerse yourself in boundary-pushing cinema.


Monday, March 23, 2020

ALICE IN ACID WONDERLAND A FILM BY LAURA GRACE ROBLES BIRTHDAY GURL VIDEO ARTIST

DEAR FILM DIARY

                                         
ALICE IN ACID WONDERLAND
 A FILM BY LAURA GRACE ROBLES BIRTHDAY GURL VIDEO ARTSIT
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ALICE IN ACID WONDERLAND

Reality dissolves as dreams become truth in this experimental acid-pop video art odyssey. A young woman named Alice slips between worlds after a mysterious mushroom experiment erases her memories, fragmenting her consciousness across multiple versions of herself.

Plunging down the rabbit hole, Alice navigates a dark rainbow landscape where her childhood companions—the enigmatic Mad Hatter and the elusive Cheshire Cat—await her return. As she journeys deeper, Alice discovers her true destiny: to ascend as Queen in a realm haunted by the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.

But what if Wonderland itself is merely another layer of simulation—a self-contained reality nested within countless others? As adult Alice transforms into child Alice and back again, the boundaries between experiment, dream, and reality collapse completely, leaving only one question: Is seeing truly believing, or is believing what creates what we see?

Dear Diary: Alice in Acid Wonderland

Tonight I slipped again between the cracks of consciousness. The experiment... that mushroom essence they gave me... it fragments me still.

I remember being both woman and child, my memories scattered like playing cards across multiple versions of myself. The laboratory fades, and suddenly I'm falling, falling down that familiar rabbit hole into a paradise of digital collage and acid-drenched colors.

This Wonderland—my dark rainbow adventure—pulses with strange familiarity. My old friends found me again: Mad Hatter with his riddles and time-warped tea parties; Cheshire Cat materializing from neon vapor, his grin suspended in the void before the rest of him appears.

"You've returned," they whisper. "Your destiny awaits."

They speak of queens and thrones, of power I'm meant to claim. But shadows lurk between realities—the Queen of Hearts with her rage and roses haunts the edges of this dream. Her laughter echoes through computerized valleys as mystical creatures scatter before her approach.

Am I dreaming within a dream? Or is this experiment creating nested planes of existence—simulations within simulations where I'm both subject and sovereign? I transition between adult and child with each shift in perception, wondering if my waking life is merely another level of the dream.

The reoccurring visions, the vessel of my consciousness floating between states—believing creates seeing, and seeing reinforces belief. An infinite loop of acid paradise where reality is merely what I decide it to be.

When I wake tomorrow, will I remember? Or will these words be the only evidence that I've once again visited the hypothetical self-contained plane where multiple Alices wander, searching for the truth behind the experiment that started it all.


DEAR DIARY: ALICE IN RAINBOW WONDERLAND

PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR GOING ON LIKE THIS IT'S TOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!

Fragmented thoughts like digital pixels rearranging themselves into new patterns of consciousness...

3:27 am Sunday March 1st

Being awake for three days straight has turned me to manic madness. I'm obsessed and intrigued by what's not intrusive about allowing the echoes of audio effects to give the dream ghost a shadowing voice to whichever Alice comes first.

I'm creating an unedited script substitution of anti-art dream pop film poetry—a fantastical dream mock document for Alice in Rainbow Wonderland, a motivation for dialogue commentary for Alice in Rainbow Eyes. This is a combination of favorite scenes from Alice in Rainbow Wonderland transformed into experimental video art film poetry.

This is my realization of the avant-garde. What makes this commentary narrate and maintain a pretense of reality while telling a story that explains the narrative poem that is Alice COTTON CANDY Rainbow Eyes in A Wonderland? This experimental film IGNITES our youth IN ORDER to realize innocence is timelessness.

Now I question what is timeless about the film and if that deserves discourse upon whether dreams are wishful thinking—questioning the realness of dreams when they are not fiction, unless it was a non-fiction reality that created fiction in the fake dream... is that fictional?

The dream perception experiment experiments with experimental filmmaking manifested by an abstracted avant-garde vernacular. I title it after an immersive experimental video art film making manifesto: The Dream Experimental Video Art Film Making Manifesto, written by the video artist Birthday Gurl celebrating the unbirthday party of computerized dream collage film paradise in a fantasy adventure with Alice in Rainbow Wonderland.

If you are reacting to a suspension of belief, it's probably fiction, but believing is dreaming within the dreaming of believing in vivid dreams. The dream perception experiment exists in Alice in Rainbow Wonderland as though it was not a believable non-fictional narrative poem—a motivated way to tell suspicious fictional storytelling, recreating the dream experimental video art film in an avant-garde cinematic spirit where the medium is the spirit.

The Avant-garde anti-abstraction of contradicting objectivity from a paradoxical outcome of dreaming makes the film question whether the dream perception experiment is a false awakening or its own dream outside of itself. It's as welcoming as the dream Alice has no memory of before she awakes to dream some more.

When she awakens in her dream to find herself in the non-fictional alternate dream reality, welcoming the un-welcomed in a fictional story of narrative dream pop film poetry of surreal anti-beauty. The abstracted tea party distortion of reality implies the dream is simulated by a dream simulation within a simulation of one's sleeping time, where the dream reality is an alternate dimension where the narrative poem told in the unconventional context of storytelling is a thought-provoking interpretation of dreaming.

Whatever is abstract is welcoming the un-welcomed. The dream ghosts are obviously masked to replicate their avatar Alice, who creates avatars of herself in her dream adventure down the rabbit hole. Without a camera, similarly in a different way pop film anti-beauty is within the awkwardness that you are attracted to when Alice intrusively attends the Mad Hatter's tea party.

I'm intoxicated by this dream and I still question whether Alice in Rainbow Wonderland is a poetical metaphor for the possibility that nothing is real and that life is a computer simulation designed by a teenage punk god filmmaker or by technology simulating a dream of fictional virtual reality.

The looking glass becomes a screen—digital, analog, quantum—reflecting back not what is, but what could be. Alice splits into many: Alice-the-curious, Alice-the-afraid, Alice-the-queen, Alice-the-child. Each one existing simultaneously across parallel dream dimensions, their narratives intertwining like DNA strands of visual poetry.


Note to self: Ideas for Interviews

Q: Dear Birthday Gurl... Hi I'm subscribed to your YouTube channel and I'm interested why you create dream mock documents instead of scripts only after the directing is done. What kind of dream pop mock document did you create for your new 2020 film Alice in Rainbow Wonderland... also can you explain what a mock document is?

A: I create mock documents instead of scripts because it makes your manifestation complete. It allows me the artistic freedom to not pay too much attention to order in regards to its post-production or production status. I'm excited about its journey to the upside down. Solving with a mockumentary document form is a truly experimental test to combining different ideas within manifestos by following a formula of methods or not. So when I'm done creating the film, I am not surprised that there is an unfolding evaporating story created by my unconscious—the way dreams are experienced. A mock document is artistic proof the dream to your film exists.

I would like to write a book based on the mock documents I have created to outline my films with afterthoughts remaining as part of my manifestos. In the aftermath of experimental filmmaking, documenting artistic realizations and questions brings me to the investigation that for the dream pop film, punk filmmakers and mock documents are in most cases all about connecting with your discoveries and documenting a fake reality of real dreams.

Are fake scripts that avoid pre-production the fakers of this mock document? Or is it the fake reality that I must escape that can be modified as a long chosen path to continue working on the film when I'm undecided on whether this is the end of manifestation or the beginning to a dream synopsis written outside of myself as an inscription of the video artist's commentary notes and a dream teenage punk film manifestation of anti-art dream film pop poetry?

The ideologies by the dream experimental video art film manifesto are written by this artist B Gurl living in a teenage dream, dreaming with Alice in Rainbow Wonderland, wondering what to write next....??????

Storyboard Fragment #42: Scene: Alice multiplies in a hall of mirrors, each reflection wearing a different expression. Audio Layer 1: Distorted clock ticking Audio Layer 2: Whispered counting backwards from 13 Visual Filter: Kaleidoscopic rainbow prism effect Symbolism: The fragmentation of self within the digital dream-space Note: Film this at 1/4 speed then accelerate to 2x in post-production for dream-like movement quality