CINEMA NONDUALITE FILM SERIES

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CALL FOR FILMS

We are looking for exciting, innovative, profound, and humorous films that touch on some aspect of nonduality to be shown during the conference. If you have a film you would like to share, send a DVD screener to:

Neti Neti Media
965 Martin Ln.
Sebastopol, CA 95472

Movies and Nonduality

To watch a film is to still the conscious mind and enter a trance, and if we could not do that, movies would be completely unintelligible. Fortunately we have little difficulty in accepting a completely artificial representation of reality: still images flash by at 24 frames per second in a two dimensional universe; events seen from multiple angles are accompanied by idiosyncratic music; people pretending to be other people speak words they would never say themselves in entirely artificial situations. This effect is known as the suspension of disbelief, and as moviegoers we take this remarkable mental process for granted. But an extraordinary thing is happening in our brains: in effect we become one with the reality of the movie, and the film’s “consciousness” merges with our own.

Cinema Nondualité is an exploration of this potential for film to elicit a unified altered state, and inquires whether it can direct the viewer towards experiencing a nondual state. The series also includes documentaries on the subject.

The Film Series

Short films under five minutes will be screened at various times during the conference, while feature length films will be shown in the evenings.