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Hypethetically speaking….

Born this Way 

…..Lady Gaga’s private tour jet experiences mechanical problems and crashes on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean.  Meanwhile, Stephanie Germinotta, not wanting to endure 24 hours with a plane full of queens, flies to Australia in her own private jet, greeted by an angry mob, incensed by her callousness and bitter that her tour is cancelled, no dancers, no costumes, forget it! (Gaga becomes a cloistered nun and vows never to sing again.)  Meanwhile, a couple of handsome dancers feverishly pull survivors from the plane, including the seamstress Juanita, eight months pregnant, who goes into labor and gives birth to a boy before she dies. The dancers raise little Ramundo as their own and he grows up hoping that some day, he too will live in an impeccably decorated hut with his handsome lover, yet there is no one his age on the island.  “Born this Way” becomes the national anthem and they burn Gaga in effigy every year on Madonna’s birthday.

Twenty years later, Lady Gaga now in her forties digs up the gold she buried in her parents’ backyard and hires a search team to find her missing dancers.  She takes a young nun named Maria with her and when they touch down on the tiny island Gaga is immediately thrown into prison.  Ramundo takes one look at Maria and sexual feelings begin to stir within him for the very first time. Maria takes one look at Ramundo and knows the Convent is no longer the place for her.  Ramundo and Maria make love under the stars and the next day filled with bravery, Ramundo expresses his love openly to his community. They institute the “Defense of Gay Marriage Act” so Ramundo starts his own “Straight Parade” (they laugh at the sight of him, parading around the island in his Dockers and polo shirt.)  Meanwhile, Gaga, feeling responsible for this mess swears off her life of service and hires her dancers back for a comeback Halftime Super Bowl Show. Maria and Ramundo remain on the island and become rich and famous from their Club Med vacation business.

The end.     

“samskaras”-

“The sushumna nadi is seen as not only the major channel the creative energy of consciousness flows through as it manifests the universe of personal experience; it is the repository for all the past impressions left by our actions, both mental and physical. The sushumna contains the impressions, called “Samskaras” of all our many lifetimes. It is the storehouse of all our karmas, all the CONSEQUENCES of our past actions that we have yet to experience.

When the light of one’s consciousness passes through them, it picks up those patterns and manifests them. To become liberated or enlightened requires becoming free of those sushumnas and the limited “I” awareness that creates them. This is the work of the awakened Kundalini. The Kundalini moves through the sushumna nadi “erasing” the impressions stored there and releasing the energy bound up in them. This releases us from the patterns in our lives created by those impressions. She opens up the states of consciousness that give us access to unbounded awareness.”

Lawrence Edwards PHD from Kundalini-Her symbols of Transformation and Freedom

It’s never over until it’s over…

Once upon a time, I dared to make an ambitious film about two young lovers on a collision course with destiny. I dared to shoot this film in a foreign city (Edinburgh) with people I didn’t yet know, yet whom I felt had integrity, passion and verve (Paul Gavin, Indra Bhose, Cindy Thompson and an incredible crew.) I dared to shoot this short film on 35 mm film and I cast the lead with the sister of a well-known actress (Beth Winslet). And with my director’s consent, I chose a rising young British actor (Alexis Conran) as her co-star. I filled out the cast with Roger Winslet and Alison McKenzie, hired Lorne Balfe to score the film (actually, I think he scored it for FREE!) and when it was completed, entered it into festivals as was the only means of distribution at that time. We got into LA Shorts Fest and a few others but I hated the fact that this was the only means of people seeing my film, so I took my expensive film reels to small theaters. We got some press and that was about it. I went on to write more scripts and dreamed of making a feature (I’m still working on it!)

Last year, many years later, Loved, alone made a resurgence at three festivals and was suddenly a rarity, the only film shot on 35mm. It had the biggest budget of any short, (probably also of any of the Features) and suddenly it had a whole new audience of people who appreciated the beauty of film. Today it is the only short being represented by Cinify! please click here to view Loved, alone for free http://openfilm.com/videos/loved-alone If our film does well here, we have a chance to move on to bigger, well-known sites (in addition, we are compensated for each viewing, so please view it again and again!)