FILM SCREENING AND UNARIUS WORKSHOP
11/11/17
Mercado Sagrado Fair
Paramount Ranch, California
The Unarius Academy of Science and Jodi Wille present the films The Arrival and We Are Not Alone, and discuss past-life therapy and working with spirit guides for inspired creativity.
Experience the legendary creative collective Unarius’ 16mm DIY masterwork The Arrival (1981, 50 mins.) and Jodi Wille’s short film on the group, “We Are Not Alone,” (2017, 12 mins.), and hear the Unariuns speak on the transformative effects of past-life psychodrama therapy and working with spirit guides for prolific creative output.
Beginning the mid-‘70s, Unarius’ visionary leader Ruth Norman (AKA Archangel Uriel) urged her students at The Unarius Academy of Science to create art as part of their spiritual growth through intuitive painting, poetry, music, and, most notably, the creation of past-life psychodrama “documentary” films and videos. And of all the DIY films made by American alternative cultures over the decades, none are as epicly ambitious and as earnestly powerful as THE ARRIVAL.
Both a “documentary” of a Unariun’s channeled past-life incarnation and a riveting homemade space opera (complete with ingenious hyper-colored analog SFX), the film follows an aborigine, who, after being contacted by an immense Rubik’s Cube full of advanced telepathic beings, overcomes his psychic amnesia, working through his past life as a genocidal spaceship commander. The largest-scale production of Unarius’ oeuvre, THE ARRIVAL feels more timely than ever in 2017, with a spiritual agenda to match Jodorowsky’s and a startling visual aesthetic that is currently influencing a new generation of artists, designers and musicians.
Filmmaker, book publisher, and curator, Jodi Wille is known for her work exploring American subcultures. Wille directed the documentary THE SOURCE FAMILY (2013) and is cofounder and editor of book publishing companies Dilettante Press and Process Media. She co-curated the 244 work exhibition “The Visionary Experience: From St. Francis to Finster” at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore (2014-2015). She is currently working on a feature-length documentary on Unarius.