Living without money - See it on TV and you tube

Trailer. Credit filmmaker and YOU TUBE.

Here is more info about the creators and links.

THE FILM TEAM:
Line Halvorsen, director
Jan Dalchow, producer
Paolo Pallavidino, producer

FILM SCREENINGS:
info@livingwithoutmoney.org
FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION:
The Norwegian Film Institute
int@nfi.no
WORLD SALES:
info@livingwithoutmoney.org

HEIDEMARIE SCHWERMER:
ivory@free.de
www.heidemarieschwermer.com

I have not yet seen the film but looking forward to see it hopefully soon. If you're impatient there is an option to see on tv.
See it on TV

Living without money film to Oslo soon

(First photo: Tone Andersen, second photo: Daniel Mazza).

Living Without Money is selected for the Eurodok Festival in Oslo, 16.-20.mars

Excerpt from synopsis:
The documentary Living Without Money portraits the life of 68 year old Heidemarie Schwermer, a German woman who made a deliberate choice to stop using money 14 years ago. She cancelled her apartment, gave away all of her belongings and kept nothing but a suitcase full of clothes. This was a decision that changed the entire outlook on her life dramatically.

Today, after 14 years, she is still living almost without money and claims she is feeling more free and independent than ever. The film follows Heidemarie in her day to day life and shows the challenges she meets by living an alternative lifestyle.

http://t.co/Rylug0o

Stekare before and now (in Swedish)

Courtesy to You Tube and user122aa — October 31, 2008 — Exempel på stekare på 00-talet och 50-talet
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Visuelt days in Oslo 6-7 May 2010

For two days, a bunch of graphic designers and illustrators and other interested people met in Oslo for the annual Visuelt event offered by Grafill (association for graphic designers and illustrators in Norway). The seminar was arranged in Vika Cinema and included welcome speeches, several visual screenings and a range of interesting presenters, many from international agencies and collectives. On Friday evening, it was time for the annual Visuelt Award Ceremony in Christiania Theatre. A number of awards (so many subcategories!) and much praise was shared with an enthusiastic audience as also the after-awards party time got closer.

You can see more here: ............(links to come)

http://bit.ly/9qfRoD

The Girl and The Robot

Nominated for the annual Spellemann in the category Music Videos. To be decided tonight in Oslo Spectrum, 6 March 2010.

The Girl And The Robot from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Movie on 60s Pirate Radio station: The Boat That Rocked

23 May, Oslo: 

Saw fantastic film Yesterday, The Boat That Rocked, by Robert Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, etc). This movie, however, is not romance but rather about a weird gang of DJs and a pirate radio station broadcasted from an old boat out in the North Sea. With lots of 60s good pop music to enjoy.

THE PLOT is the weird DJs fight to keep up their Pirate ROCK Radio station against the British Government including a stiff, control-driven Minister (played by Kenneth Branagh) and some overeager Gov officials. We´re back in mid 1960s (1966 I think it says in the film) when the British Government did not like this music nor its broadcasting, and BBC allowed only a very limited time for the new pop music played in official channels, as far as known. 

POP MUSIC SPREAD QUICKLY. Despite limited BBC access,  the 60s new pop music did not stop but rather spread fairly quickly and eventually became a flood-shed. Pop music gained increasingly more in popularity... whether listened to from radios stuck secretly under children´s pillows or shared more in the open by teenagers and eventually others, in variable places indoors or outdoors, thanks also to new transportable radios.

 

I wonder how this diffusion was actually feasible when BBC and Government were restricting the pop music broadcasting severely at the time? How active they were I do not precisely know, could be interesting to know more about this. (I´m not an expert in this field and was a bit young at the time but my friends remember more and listened to e.g. Radio Caroline. We also have a record with authentic recording from this and other pirate stations). 

Anyway, a lot of new pop-based pirate radio solutions popped up so to speak... What is only hinted to in the film, is the role played by commercials. It was probably not merely the closed state broadcasting regime but perhaps also (or even more) the actions of numerous commercial interests spreading ads in relation to popular music programs that nourished an outside-the-shore pirate solution. Broadcasting via boats and a "free ocean solution" seemed to be financed by commercials and was tried successfully for some time... opposing and bypassing the severe restrictions on the British island. Remember Radio Caroline and other pop and commercial boat solutions at the time. 

This is timely to remember now in our new pirate music and movie situations, I guess...

And if you enjoy pop music from the 60s as well as  the DJ lads´ongoing relationship plays - a thrilling mix of bad and good behaviour  and much humour - this is smth for you. Enjoy. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5049946/Richard-Curtis-talks-about-his-new-film---The-Boat-That-Rocked.html