Come join us in the Winterstar Pufferdome channel! Follow us down the rabbit hole to a land of sights and sounds, strange and wonderful. We will be going on a journey, into the past to find the future. Along the way we will discover clues, sign posts, and hidden messages. Help us discover the meaning of these strange visions and what the future holds for all of us.

The Pufferdome Channel  
This is the channel of the Pufferdome, Starwood’s inflatable immersive full dome theater. Here we will be showing video entertainment throughout WinterStar for your entertainment.
Join and learn things you probably shouldn’t know, that may or may not be true, that will potentially change your world view for better or for worse. Views and teachings expressed do not neccessarily represent the views of Starwood, or the Pufferdome, and should be viewed at your own risk.

Friday 2/14

3 PM
Opening Chat

4 PM
Opening

4:30 PM
Terence McKenna - Opening the Doors of Creativity
This lecture by Terence Mckenna, videotaped in 1990, articulates his understanding of the process and the significance of creativity."Art opens the portal to the sacred dimension of humanity’s Consciousness and Psyche.” - Terence Mckenna

5:30 PM
Alan Moore - Views on Magic and the Occult
"There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness." - Alan Moore

6:30 PM
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
- Free Speech and Art Censorship
Just as relevant now as then, if not more from the lost archives of artist, industrial music pioneer, mind explorer Genesis P-Orridge, who expresses concerns, 30 years ago about state oppression on freedoms of individual thought and action, particularly through art.                           
- Write Your Own Code
Poetry of Genesis P-Orridge, read by Genesis, filmed in 2014, for the film "Change Itself”

7:30 PM  
RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)
- Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Ten years ago, a team of filmmakers followed David Lynch on a sixteen-country tour and documented a series of lectures and intimate interviews on Lynch's creative process and his relationship to Transcendental Meditation. The resulting footage has been compiled into a documentary entitled Meditation, Creativity, Peace.

8:00 Concert

9:00
Open Discussion - Film Talk - Hang Out -

10:00 PM
JR "Bob" Dobbs And The Church Of The Subgenius
What started out as an inside joke amongst two self-proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for when they decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own.

11:30 PM
Ivan Stang’s incredible experiments in AI filmmaking.    
  - When God Was Still Experimenting
  - In The Year 2525
  - The Last Survivors
  - Bob's Dream Recording

12:30 AM
The Congress
A 2013 live-action/animated science-fiction drama The film explores themes of choice, the illusion of having one, and the impact of AI on actors, blending live-action and psychedelic animated sequences to create a surreal and thought-provoking narrative.

2:30 AM
Stuart Gordon
- Dagon
A 2001 Spanish horror film, loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story "Dagon" and his novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" The film is set in a Spanish fishing town called Imboca. The plot revolves around a couple, Paul and Barbara, who are vacationing when a boating accident strands them in Imboca, where they uncover the town's dark secret of worshipping the sea god Dagon.

4:00 AM
David Lynch
- Eraserhead  
Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.

Saturday 2/15

10:00 AM
Saturday Morning Cartoons
- Early Vintage Wonders
- 80’s Magical Realms

11:00 AM
Cartoons of Sally Cruikshank
-Quasi at the Quackadero
-Make Me Psychic
-Face Like a Frog
Sally Cruikshank is considered one of the most well-known pioneers of psychedelic 1970s underground animation.        


11:30 AM  
Cartoons of Faith Hubley      
- Who Am I
- Seers and Clowns
- Witch Madness
Faith Hubley is a world renowned animator, whose work in experimental animation for children and adults throughout the 70’s and 80’s was groundbreaking.

12:00 PM  
Brother Bread Sister Puppet
This 1992 documentary captures the reclusive and world famous Bread and Puppet Theater, placing the viewer within the Theater's collective creative milieu as it prepared for and performed its annual summer festival, where its signature giant-sized puppets and social commentary were unleashed.

1:00 PM
Women in Spirituality
- Donna Read - Goddess Remembered
This poetic documentary is a salute to 35 000 years of "pre-history,"; to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. Linking the loss of goddess-centred societies with today's environmental crisis. This documentary proposes a return to the belief in an interconnected life system, with respect for the earth and the female, as fundamental to our survival.

2:00 PM
Women in Spirituality
- Donna Read -The Burning Times
This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film advances the theory that widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.

3:00 PM
Women in Spirituality
- Donna Read - Full Circle
In this stirring documentary, authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women’s spirituality in the Western world. Drawing on the customs, rites and knowledge of the past, Full Circle envisions a sustainable future where domination is replaced with respect. At the centre of these discussions is a reverence for the Earth, a sacred circle which we must protect.

4:00 PM
Children of the Stars
- Unarius UFO Documentary
Children of the Stars (2012) The story of The Unarius church. Led by Ruth Norman, who claimed to be the vessel for the Archangel Uriel. Members of the Unarius cult were known for creating bizarre, low-budget sci-fi films, as a form of past life regression therapy.

5:00 PM
Jodorowsky's Dune
Jodorowsky's Dune is a 2013 film, which explores cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s incredible but unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s.

6:30 PM  
Alex Grey  
- The Healing Power of Sacred Art
- WorldSpirit
Is it possible that art has the power to heal? Alex Grey discusses the power of sacred art to bring us face to face with divine reality. He shows us elements of this divine reality that he has captured in the scores of paintings and sculptures going back over twenty years of creation.

8:00
Concert

9:00 PM
Open Discussion - Film Talk - Hang out

10:00
Waking Life
Acclaimed animated film that follows a young man through a series of dreams in which he has discussions about philosophical mysteries.

11:00 PM
Wonder Muddle
Videos and music from a future modern psychedelic mystical dream. Flashbacks of sixties futurism and magical aspiration that still inspire and inform today. Strange feelings, experiences, memories the mystical ancient childhood of our future selves.

1:00 AM  
Kenneth Anger
- Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan’s cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.

1:30 AM
Guy Maddin / Shelly Duvall
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Bathed in dawn-tinted hues, Mandragora is a fantasy island where the sun never sets. Here, nature runs amok in a teeming wood, but it is human nature that is most unbridled. The island's inhabitants simmer in the sylvan sun.

3:00 AM
Steven Arnold
- Luminous Procuress
Luminous Procuress is a 1971 psychedelic odyssey of unabashed hedonism. The only feature film by artist, mystic and polymath Steven Arnold, the film celebrates gender-fluidity and pan-sexuality in a voyeuristic phantasmagorical journey towards spiritual ecstasy. The Procuress leads two young men through a surreal peepshow of fantastic, bizarre, androgynous, mystical, spiritual, and erotic vignettes.

4:00 AM
Viewers Choice / Mystery Movie

Sunday 2/16

10:00 AM
Ron Fricke
- Samsara
Samsara is a non-narrative documentary exploring the wonders of our world. Directed by Ron Fricke, this visually stunning film takes its name from the Sanskrit word referring to the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Shot over a period five years in 25 countries across five continents, it offers a visual meditation on the human experience and our planet’s natural beauty.

11:45 AM
Atsushi Takenouchi
- Urban Butoh Project
Last video of the Urban Butoh series, with the master Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya with the music.

12:00 PM
Gregory Colbert
- Ashes and Snow
Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-minute feature is a poetic narrative rather than a documentary. It aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them.

1:00 PM
Helmut Dosantos
- Gods of Mexico
This film is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several rural communities in Mexico. It showcases visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, taking viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines, while paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization.

2:30
Ciro Guerra
- Embrace of the Serpent
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

4:30
- Shamans of the Amazon
In a time when indigenous people, their culture, and the natural environment are experiencing dramatic changes, this program examines what Shaman's of the Amazon, their hallucinogenic rituals and their special relationship with nature have to offer humanity at this crucial time in history. Discover how westerners around the world are using Ayahuasca and other Shamanic plants to receive knowledge.

5:30
- DMT : The Spirit Molecule
The Spirit Molecule explores the enigmatic dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic molecule found throughout nature, including humans, and potentially every living organism. Based on the book written by Rick Strassman.

6:15 PM  
Popol Vuh - Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin
Florian Fricke’s film with music by Popol Vuh.

6:30
Closing

7:30
Festival Express
In the summer of 1970, a rock festival travelled across Canada by luxury train, stopping in Toronto, Calgary, and Winnipeg. Lured by the promise of a mobile party, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Ian & Sylvia signed on to the tour for a fraction of their usual fees. The performances and the stars' antics on the train were both filmed, only to be locked away for 25 years. The colorful and thrilling results, seen here for the first time, capture these artists at their loosest and most natural.

9:00
Ginger Baker In Afrika
At the end of the 60s, superstar drummer and angriest man in rock Ginger Baker was on the verge of collapse. Strung out on heroin, deeply grieving Jimi Hendrix’s death, and alienated from his former Cream and Blind Faith bandmates, he needed a new direction. He found it in Nigeria, where he decamped after driving a Range Rover from Algeria across the Sahara Desert.

10:00
Viewers Choice / Mystery Movie