PRODUCTION AND EDITING:
Gabriel Mott

CAMERA:
Che Mott, Mike Baker, Dean Wolf (baby sounds: Julian Wolf)

CAVE PAINTING MUSIC:
dj lorin bassnectar.net

SOUND OF SOLAR MASS SPIRALING INTO BLACK WHOLE (used between band and fire dancing):
S. A. Hughes from MIT

WITHOUT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE THIS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE:
Krissy Kopp, Anthony Sandberg, Max Fancher, Maggie Holmes, , Jamey Austin, Che and Padminie Mott, Amy Ehrlich, SEJ, Gina Fong, Emily Grieves, Shannon Danilovich, Aubry Christofferson

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION:
All the OCSC crew and club members for welcoming us here, Mike Baker, Eric Rubin, Andy Hess, Kurt Schmitt, Mark Spinrad, Jason Seidler, Reggie and Susannah Clark, Matt Green and Heather, Virginia DiPaolo, Tom Hamilton, Dean Wolf, James Jones, Harris and Serena Maskett, Anne McCarthy, John Birnie, Stefan Peterson, Heidi Phan, Lauren Ekman, Tim Nordvedt, Amicitia Wine, Diamond Oaks Vineyard for their support.

KEW THEMES: (1). graffiti vs. cave painting, (2). how art makes us human, (3). art and religion, (4). paintings as transformational, (5). the mystical, (6). neuropsychology, (7). feng shui

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Mystical Street Art: The Movie

"A heartfelt juxtaposition and contextualization of ritual and art. While drumming and fire open the heart, the visual pathways that open the mind are presented and explained. AWESOME"
---Sheldon Norberg, Confessions of a Dope Dealer

"With a disregard for how paintings should be done, and a bold application of across-the-board materials, Gabriel Mott combines a feel of street graffiti with a sensible reference to modern art's grappling with the figure in abstraction. "
---Grant Robart, Art Critic

Aloha!

Thank you for coming last year. The movie we talked about is finally here.

Man these things take a long time. One year and three months later, Funkyenough Productions proudly announces: Mystical Street Art: The Movie. If you were there on June 12, 2004, you might be in it.

The movie summarizes the theme from the art show, that the value of artwork is based in the intrinsic power art has to transform:

"The first art was inseparable from the mystical.
It was access to knowledge and transformation".

Years ago, people first gathered in celebration and ritual to connect to something greater than themselves; to give life meaning and order, to connect to the divine, and to experience deep joy. For any and all of these reasons, humans have used ceremony, music and art for thousands and thousands of years.

We gathered on the San Francisco Bay at the OCSC sailing club to offer our deepest desires and fears up to the element of fire. We danced and played music. And we gathered around transformational paintings created to offer portals to manifesting desires.

This was an art show that dropped pretense, that asked for participation. Fire was used as a bridge connecting us to our past. Today's music, ritual and art are very different from those of cultures before us, however, their power is just as useful. Painted symbols, shape, line, and color, have power beyond being pretty pictures.

The paintings are are tools for transformation.

I hope you enjoy the movie.

Thanks,
Gabe

P.S. The basis for the neurophysiological theory is based upon the book The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams.

P.P.S. Art is selling online out of Oakland, we can ship anywhere, fully insured. Hit me.

9/16/05

To acquire artwork, see the 2004-5 Gallery.
And also the 2000-3 Gallery.

Contact Saran Russell saran@funkyenough.com to purchase artwork. If you have already have artwork from Funkynough Productions, ask Saran about your collector's credit discount.

other movies

Chase

In Shamanic Journeys, one practice is to go into a trancelike state and recover a lost part of your soul. A part gets lost during a traumatic experience and once recovered, one experiences the feeling of wholeness. Some have said that this is an ongoing process, bits of our souls get left behind all the time and we are constantly reuniting ourselves. In some cases, we may not recognize ourselves. Chase was made for class at CCSF with Alan and Jeremy.
Windows Media 100kbs (speed) 3.8MB

More Movies Coming Soon

Brett Cook-Dizney provided the context while participants filled in the lines and colors

Over the Summer, Artist Brett Cook-Dizney opened his studio in the Headlands for a day and had participants finish murals of Martin Luther King, Jr., Arundhati Roy, Julia Butterfy Hill, Caesar Chavez and Thich Nhat Han. This movie clip offers a preview of a documentary to be finished this winter on the process. In this piece, the focus is on Arundhati Roy, an amazing leader for social justice.

Windows Media 256k (speed) 2.9MB : Windows Media 512k (speed) 5.6MB

Movies to look forward to web release: TONK, staring Roib, Stevie Bread and the Maskets, POETRY AND PAINTING with Jamey Austin, THE BLACK BOX, and more...

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