Guerrilla Zoo will be taking over the art space to install some wondrous art and visual live artists will be creating masterpieces right in front of your eyes that would make even Da Vinci cry with tears of awe! 

“Close your eyes and walk into your mind. Down, past the Memories, between the Thoughts and the Feelings, there’s a little crooked path that leads right to the back of everything you've ever thought. At the end of the path there’s a little wooden door with a big brass handle. That’s the back entrance to the Library of the Untold, a vast collection of stories never spoken, of books never written, and of tales never told. Come on in and find your story.”

The venue will open an hour early for a special swing dance class lead by the formidable Swing Patrol. To join the Swing Class, please buy the Swing Dance Class Tickets.

- LINE UP -

Room 1 – The Rumpus Arena
A vast arena bringing you the very best of Rumpus.
Electric Swing Circus | Tankus the Henge  | The Rubbish Side Show | Swing Patrol swing dance classes | Wolfie Razzmatazz | The Roustabouts | Barking Bateria | Dr Malaka – Bursting with Balkan Beats

Room 2- Electro Swing Club
The finest in electroswing sounds! 
Future Swing Stories | Chris Tofu | Formidable Vegetable | World’s Tallest DJ | John Bongly

Room 3 – Unhappily Ever After 
by Happy Slap Boutique! Because not all stories have a happy ending…

Room 4 – The Traveling Tavern
Step back through time to the early years of jazz, and kick off with some explosive blues!
Brooke Sharkey | Adam Beattie & The Consultants | Garance and the Mitochondries

Room 5 – The Gypsy King’s Court
Wander through the woods until you see the fire light… Step closer and join the Gypsy King’s revelries – but first pay the price of admission: One Secret!
Beyond Pages | Steph West

Room 6 – Wonderland
The wonderful wonderland crew bring you a room full of beats to get your booty moving.
Featuring: Burning Max

Room 7 – The Alchemists’s Lair
Wander all the up up the stairs, and try to discover the Alchemist’s secrets…
Dj theAlchemist – Kiwi dub, d’n'b & psytrance | Matt Catt – Up-tempo electro swing & big beat.
James Pb – Dancehall & roots reggae | Paolo Tossio – Live set of psytrance, with live vocalist Lyrical

Room 8 – The Alleyway
The Tangled Two | Max | John Heath

Room 9 - The Rumpus Cinema
A vast cinematic experience, brought to you by the mighty VJ Harper.

Room 10 - Guerrilla Zoo Art
Cutting edge art and live art by some of London’s most exciting visual artists, courtesy of Guerrilla Zoo.
Iain Macarthur | Animaux Circus | Up Saw | BonnieMakesPictures | Greta Wallner | Gary Alford | Sophie Rose | Harlot Von Charlotte | Alex Moore | Karina Akopyan | Lewis Campbell | Castro Smith

Room 11 - What The Dickens
The very finest Victorian Victuals served all night for your delectation.

It's been a long wait, 23 years in fact since cult film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky made his last film. The Danza de la Realidad is his much anticipated return to the silver screen.  For those unable to hope across to Cannes for the première screenings,  here is the theatrical trailer from Pathè films.  We are very excited about this new film which stars Brontis Jodorowsky, who we featured in The Gorilla theatre production, also Cristobal Jodorowsky and Adan Jodorowsky, with costume design by Pascal Montandon. We have some very exciting Jodorowsky news coming soon, so stay tuned...!!!

By Dennis Lim, Special to the Los Angeles Times - May 16, 2013

CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970, sealed his place in the annals of cult cinema.

Jodorowsky last made a comeback in 1989 with the Oedipal melodrama "Santa Sangre," about a serial killer operating under the spell of his armless mother. When that project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, a journalist wondered if a decade-long break from filmmaking had left Jodorowsky rusty. He responded: "A rusty knife is twice as deadly."

Deadlier than ever, presumably, after an even longer absence, Jodorowsky, 84, has returned to directing with "The Dance of Reality," his first movie since 1990's "The Rainbow Thief" (a work-for-hire with Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif that he has since disowned). Billed as a work of "imaginary autobiography," "The Dance of Reality" is among the most eagerly anticipated titles in this year's Director's Fortnight section at Cannes, which is also screening "Jodorowsky's Dune," a documentary by Frank Pavich about Jodorowksy's fabled, doomed attempt in the mid-1970s to turn Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel into a big-screen space opera.

"Every one of my pictures is different — I die and I'm reborn with each one," Jodorowsky said last week by Skype from Nice, where he was on vacation, preparing for the Cannes maelstrom. Even over a spotty connection, the bearded Jodorowsky, with his shock of white hair and gleaming row of improbably perfect teeth, registered as larger than life. An expansive if rambling conversationalist, he apologized several times for his faltering English and his penchant for digressive rants. After one vigorous diatribe — on the evils of money — he said, with a smile: "You know, you are speaking with a crazy person."

On the subject of his new film, which will have its first screening May 18 (along with Pavich's documentary), Jodorowsky declined to get into specifics. "I am like a mother with a son in my belly," he said. "I don't want to think about it before the baby is born."

Jodorowsky described "The Dance of Reality," which he shot in his hometown of Tocopilla in the Chilean desert, as "psychological time travel," an attempt to give poetic yet concrete form to the first chapters of his colorful life.

Born to Russian Jewish émigrés in 1929, Jodorowsky studied theater and worked as a circus clown and puppeteer in Santiago. In postwar Paris he performed mime with Marcel Marceau and fell in with the surrealists. He then moved to Mexico, where he mounted dozens of plays inspired by Antonin Artaud's theater of cruelty. Back in Paris, where he has lived since the 1980s, he cultivated multiple sidelines: writing comic books, studying the tarot and developing a therapeutic method known as psychomagic, rooted in both psychoanalysis and shamanism.

Psychomagic is the guiding philosophy of "The Dance of Reality," a kind of home movie writ large. Jodorowsky's wife, Pascale Montandon, was the costume designer, and three of his sons appear in it, including Brontis (who in "El Topo" portrayed the son of the title character, a gunslinger known as "the mole" and played by Alejandro Jodorowsky). In the new film, Brontis, now 50, plays Jodorowsky's Stalin-lookalike father, whom the director described as "a very terrible father, a very hard man, but he had his reasons." 

"Before we started, I said to the crew, 'I am trying to heal my soul,'" Jodorowsky said. "But it's not an egocentric, narcissistic picture. Poetry doesn't speak about history. It speaks about interior life, universal problems."

"The Dance of Reality" came about when Jodorowsky reconnected with the producer Michel Seydoux through Pavich's film on "Dune." They had not spoken in years, each nursing his wounds from the abortive project, which was to have starred Orson Welles and Mick Jagger and featured a Pink Floyd score. David Lynch eventually brought Herbert's book to the screen in 1984, but Jodorowsky's unmade version has exerted its own influence — not least thanks to his would-be collaborators, who included artist H.R. Giger, cartoonist Jean "Moebius" Giraud and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, all of whom worked on Ridley Scott's "Alien."

Nicolas Winding Refn, a fan of Jodorowsky's who dedicated "Drive" to him (and is back in Cannes this year with "Only God Forgives"), appears in the documentary to make the provocative suggestion that had Jodorowsky's "Dune" been made — and been a hit instead of "Star Wars" — it could have changed the course of mainstream cinema.  

Unrealized projects loom over Jodorowsky's career, among them an "El Topo" sequel and a gangster film, "King Shot," that was to have starred Nick Nolte and Marilyn Manson. The money men inevitably pulled out for the same reasons, Jodorowsky said: "They're afraid, they think it's too surrealist, too weird."

Jodorowsky, by his admission, is not his own best salesman. For "The Dance of Reality," he said, "I told the producer, 'I want to make a picture to lose money.' I am tired of all that money. Movies are an art, not a business."

Jodorowsky once argued that "head" movies should not merely simulate psychedelic visions — they should supplant the need for drugs. These days his musings on the power of cinema have a more spiritual bent. "I ask to movies everything I can ask to a sacred book: Bible, Koran, Torah," he said.

"Movies were the hope of human culture. The Surrealists thought it was the real new art of the century, but now it's the worst. The first illness is the producer, and the second illness is stars. They kill the art, the big, big egos who believe in nothing." He's also no fan of digital technology, which creates "scientific images, very clear, with color like a painting," he said. "You see a tiger in a film and you have no emotion because you know it is not real. You admire the technique but you don't believe there is any danger."

In the Jodorowsky universe, to make art is to risk something, whether it be safety, sanity or ridicule. He shot "Santa Sangre" in actual slums and red-light districts, working with real-life criminals. On the new film, the production had to contend with extreme pollution from the local copper mines. "Everything is poison there," he said. "After two months we were all ill."

A onetime emblem of the counterculture, Jodorowsky is now, in his way, an elder statesman. "Fando y Lis" (1967), his violent first film, prompted a riot at its Acapulco premiere, but "El Topo" and the even more outrageous "Holy Mountain" (1973), both newly restored, have found appreciative younger audiences; the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of his work two years ago.

To hear him tell it, though, Jodorowsky's troublemaking days may not be behind him. "Wait until you see my new picture — maybe that will destroy everything," he said with a laugh. "I believe 100% in what I did, but this film is not similar to the past. It's a step into nothingness."

An autobiographical work by an octogenarian, "The Dance of Reality" begs to be read as a culminating work, but Jodorowksy refuses to think of it as a swan song. "People are prejudiced about my age," he said. "They think you become an idiot. But to have more years is to become more wise. They say I am old, but to me 84 is young. I think I can make four or five more pictures. I am not in a hurry."

SOURCE : http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-alejandro-jodorowsky-dance-reality-cannes-20130519,0,7499538.story

We are proud to announce the release of Modern Panic : Dreams and Freedom, the new film by Tom of www.reflectonfilm.co.uk  The film documents 'Modern Panic III' exhibition curated by Guerrilla Zoo's James Elphick and scratches beneath the visually striking surface to explore the themes and symbolism in this provocative exhibition series.  

The film has first hand artist interviews from Daevid Allen, Rikki Stein, Carrie Reichardt, Alexandra Unger, Iain Macarthur, Andrew Hladky and Maria Almena. Also featuring performances by Lydia Darling, Nicola Canavan & Jon John, Alexandra Under, Mad Alan and Kimatica Studio.

Modern Panic III features powerful footage from the start so viewer discretion is advised!

To coincide with the release of this new film, Guerrilla Zoo have opened international artist submissions for Modern Panic IV.  If you are interested in participating please fill in an application form over on the artist submissions page : www.guerrillazoo.com/artist-submissions

Thank you to all those who attended The Goblin King's Masquerade Ball 2013.  This years magical setting of the goblin back streets, the breath-taking attire, wondrous performances, strange immersive experiences, treasure hunt games, secret rooms and other worldly creatures, took the whole event to a new and exciting level.  

An amazing array of the bold, grotesque and beautiful minions of the goblin realm can now been see on the gallery page for the event. Please go and see if you made the cut! 

For those wondering what they had missed we also have a short teaser trailer from the event, have a glimpse into a little of what happened when the portal to the goblin realm opened once more.

We have a facebook group dedicated to the event with more photos from attendees, please go explore : https://www.facebook.com/groups/goblinking/

We hope you will join us again NEXT YEAR in 2014!

Ungewinster aka Malik Ibheis, the body contorting twisted mime from The Goblin King's Masquerade Ball and It's Your Funeral is part of a brilliant new physical theatre production entitled
 THE LITTLE SOLDIERS.  

The production have kindly offered to our followers a 2 for 1 discount for a limited time and we would like to invite you to come and see this wonderfully warped Carney spin on a surreal sibling rivalry.

When does an all-consuming dream become a nightmare?

In an old circus tent, two brothers fight to the death. As their absurd rivalry builds towards destruction, their entire existence unfolds before them. Primal emotions take hold, furious ambition drives them into an unknown world and an impossible dream looms ever closer.

Inspired by the ancient tale of Cain and Abel, “The Little Soldiers” by acclaimed company Theatre Re combines spellbinding physical theatre and a sonic landscape created by live musical narrative to portray a timeless rivalry.  

Ungewinster at The Goblin King's Ball : Photo by Steve White | www.redsquarephotography.co.uk

THE LITTLE SOLDIERS
@ The Cockpit Theatre (Edgware Rd station)
Wed 15 May - Sun 2 Jun
Performances :  Tues – Sat at 7.30pm, Sunday at 5pm, Sat matinees at 2.30pm
The Cockpit Theatre (Edgware Rd station)

2 FOR 1 OFFER until May 25: Use code 'CNJ' when booking by phone
Tickets £12 | Box Office 020 7258 2925
http://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_little_soldiers