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	The Remote Viewers 2008 MniDv cam (Sony PD150/70)+Super 8mm Telepaths within the electrical hermitages around Mount Te Aroha work with the local population - brain washing them through the use of street speakers which transmit alchemical formuli to keep the population docile. The source of these broadcasts is shown to be the mass media operating on officially approved frequency bandwidths. Under the guidence of remote viewing telepaths a technological witch-doctor called Nana Shamanic becomes the tool of the technicians observing this psychic effect. Behind the voice of control: A strange man in a puppet booth dispenses scrolls of power The remote viewers walk from the moon and embed themselves in your living room-once there there hatch a self replicating egg from an alien source-there is no stopping them even thought the original creature has long gone the echo of the echo lives on fore ever-revitialised each time you switch on the tube laboratory tests conducted within the closed hermetical seal of the grid cartesian coordinates descartes torture war kill situationism laboratory A three part series which examines the telepaths of Te Aroha, a small town in New Zealand - transmitting subliminal signals across the pylons from their Electrical hermitages Filmed 2005/6/7/8 by Snakebeings
	Alchemical Pilgrimage 2002-2008 Super 8 Film transferred to video : 17 minutes. Documents the pilgrimage of three monk-like figures as they make their way to the broadcasting antenna at the summit of Mount Te Aroha (north island New Zealand). On arrival the 'pilgrims' perform a chaotic ritual utilising the 3 objects they have brought with them (a silver suit case containing strange alchemical gadgets, a radio antenna and an incense burner made from a VW hubcap). Satisfied with the outcome of their Alchemical Ritual the monks return, closing the lid on the magical technology contained within the silver suit case. Filmed in New Zealand Jan-April 2002 Final edit 2008
	Plastic 2007/8 03:33 mins -The creature of Petroleum Relics is out and about- Food Packaging was encased in a supermarket refuge pile for several decades. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch>from it then came a plastic creature> Made by Snakebeings and Dave Mike [Guitarist from the Mr Sterile Assembly]-
	Pumpkin Soup 2007 : a ' surrealist metaphor for the disposable society of the spectacle in which a plastic headed consumer is caught within an endless cycle of decay' length 3:41 Photography Snakebeings Actor Adrienne Grant
	Death of an Orchestra A coin operated mechanical orchestra meet their destruction when a disgruntled customer objects to their money making scheme. The destruction of the orchestra has an imploding effect on the film reality of the customer showing the co-dependence of viewer and screen. summary of film The grotesque form of the Pixilated customer arriving at a corner shop begins The Death of an Orchestra in which the inhabitants of a mysterious mechanical coin operated theatre use a variety of schemes to rob the passer-by of their money. The stopmotion puppet's offer of a free coin entices the customer to spend more to view increasingly shorter performances of their ramshackle music. When the puppets resort to obvious begging tactics the hideous customer, who was at first enchanted by their magical spectacle, becomes angry and destroys the orchestra, finding their destruction means the end of his own existence as the curtains simultaneously close on both viewer and performer. Stp frame animation by SnakeBeings 2006
	Acting and script development: Martin and Snakes go to the Zoo DIRECTED AND fILMED bY MICHELLE SAVILLE - A comedic Semi-punkoiD macro adventure zone. Random humour bordering on 'a bit borat' or dave chapelle or even slightly monty pythony ... .. . Co-written by Michelle, Martin and Snakes Screened at the NEW YORK International Independent Film and Video festival.... 2006
	pYLON pIRATES 04:50 a Group of pylon resistance fighters become corrupted by the hum of the wires - Might be a bit regional, but in the Waikato, new zealand a power company wanted to put pylons accross farmlands and houses, there was a lot of resistance to the idea- excuse the pun- including threats of armed retail-iation "get off my land!" he says waving a shotgun-you know the type of thing- this film is taking the idea further and the pylon-badder-meinhoff terrorist group threaten to take the power into their own hands- of course all power corrupts and the hum of the pylon proves to be very seductive.		Snakebeings Film Biog Emit Snake-Beings, who over several decades has travelled intensively in Spain, Holland, the Middle East, Mexico, America and Japan, is a New Zealand / British experimental filmmaker and musician who has produced over 40 independently released film soundtrack CDs and made a number of short experimental and narrative films in Spain, U.K. and New Zealand. After completing a joint degree in computer graphic design and film studies, Emit has recently moved towards ‘material’ animation employing puppetry and video stop motion combined with computer post-production. www.snakebeings.co.nz. His latest film project, in collaboration with http://www.obertfunciona.es , from Tarragona is called ‘Plastic’ and is based on a Petroleum Cult set in the near future in which Oil Relics are worshipped to a point of insanity.
	The Remote Viewers 2008 The Remote Viewers 2008 Telepaths within the electrical hermitages around Mount Te Aroha work with the local population - brain washing them through the use of street speakers which transmit alchemical to keep the population docile. The source of these broadcasts is shown to be the main stream mass media operating on officially approved frequency bandwidths. Under the guidence of remote viewing telepaths a technological witch-doctor called Nana Shamanic becomes the tool of the technicians observing this psychic effect. Behind the voice of control: A strange man in a puppet booth dispenses scrolls of power The remote viewers walk from the moon and embed themselves in your living room-once there there hatch a self replicating egg from an alien source-there is no stopping them even thought the original creature has long gone the echo of the echo lives on fore ever-revitialised each time you switch on the tube laboratory tests conducted within the closed hermetical seal of the grid cartesian coordinates descartes torture war kill situationism laboratory FACTORY REPLICATION UNTIL THE COPY IS THE COPY OF SOMETHING WHICH WAS NOT REAL ANYWAY- THE FACTORY WORKER RETURNS HOME TO WATCH "FACTORY" THE REALITY TV SHOW IN WHICH HE HAS BEGUN TO FEATURE- IT IS INTERUPTED BY THE FIGUREHEAD OF CAPITALISM [IN NEW ZEALAND ANYHOW] WHO PRESENTS A SPECIAL OFFER- ONE WHICH HE CAN NOT REFUSE A three part series which examines the telepaths of Te Aroha, a small town in New Zealand - transmitting subliminal signals across the pylons from their Electrical hermitages Filmed 2005/6/7/8 by Snakebeings		Review by Daniel Powell The Remote Viewers ( 2007) A SHORT FILM BY SNAKE BEINGS 2005 Review by Spider monk EE, 2006 There’s a strong dystopian ideal driving Snake Beings’ short film ´Nana Shaemanic’; the air-waves have been controlled by the mass media mega-corps through “music enhancing additives which have been embedded in all radio transmittions since 1974”. We find this out through a police-state voice-over, which is used throughout the film. There is also an underlying soundtrack consisting of some Snake-Beings tracks, in their various incarnations. The action is a surrealistic interpretation of the dystopian voice-over, complete with exquisitely antequated radios, aerials and oscillators. There are also an interesting array of production techniques, such as lo-fi blue screening, fish eye camera shots, word overlaps, microscopic viewpoints, stills speed sequences, and some sublime super 8mm footage that Snake Beings shot himself, in transit over Auckand N.Z, and to the pyramids of Mexico, by the way of some Fijian dried and numbered frogs. The role of the title character seems to be to represent “the intuative process of the human psyche”, and there are some nice pictorial contrasts between pylon-revved settings and the transcendent lightness of the character. It appears that Nana Shaemanic is being manipulated by the negative transmittions. Sometimes she is shown to be experimented upon, in a state of negative rewiring. The remote viewers in the film, lab-coated document makers, sometimes working outside on circuiting transmitters, at other times laying down clumps of reality in plastic classified bags, on a conveyer belt, trying to classify chaos. This, and their group viewing of the tortured Nana, are strong symbolic vehicles of the machinary of the mass-media, and its psychotic desire to control and classify; at times itself being chanelled by the elements of chaos that they find in remote viewing exercises. The film has a lot of notions to take in, but the strong symbolism that is used makes it easy to get the basic gist of it, and on repeat viewings it becomes more apparent, and decipherable, especially if you pay attention to the narrative. I would recommend this film to people interested in modern surrealism and also to anyone who thinks, or who can think, slightly outside of the square, for it is the square in a sense that this film is critiqueing, and it is the psychic notion of free thought, and the time slicing dimension represented by the at times Kali-like white figue of Nana Shaemanic that sets it apart from other films that also critique the mass-medias control of society.

The Remote Viewers 2008 -coming to a Youtube near you soon!

[Other films]

Death of an Orchestra - 2006

The Remote Viewers part one -2005>2008

Pylon Pirates - 2005

Kill for your Government Kill - 2005

Alchemical Pilgrimage - 2002>2008

Cholera Clocks - 1995

The Shrine - 1993

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