Will Ferrell sends Ben Stiller on a hallucinated mind-controlled journey in this classic scene from Zoolander: a poppy and psychedelic version of ”The Manchurian Candidate”.
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Jan Kounen / Gisele Kerozene…
20 Jul
A last hint of Jan Kounen…a Master…in psychedelism / Stop motion technique…
In 1989, he directed GISELE KEROSENE, “Grand Prix du Court-Métrage” award at the Avoriaz Festival.
Jan Kounen / The last red chaperone
13 JulI already talked about Jan Kounen, one of my favorite movie director, actor, writer and documentary maker in psychedelia …
Today, I want to show you “The last red chaperone”, his version of the famous fairy…
It’s in french and spanish subtitled, but the fact here is much more about the visuals and the techniques he used to give us the perception he wanted, and it’s a success !
Please, enjoy 
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
And part 5
Jan Kounen / Bluberry / Ayahusca trip
6 JulAs a Jan Kounen’s movie, I wanted to present a short sample…
Depiction of an ayahuasca trip from the movie Renegade aka Blueberry.
One of the best way I found to describe it in a movie…since it will never be possible to describe it as it is in reality…
Kodachrome Film Test: 1922 in Motion and Color
26 JunThis is one of the most magical things I ever came across in the www. I keep coming back to it and it never looses any of its strange emotional power. The pulsing light gives an enchanted life to the dance of picture postcard poses and the color is such an otherworldly hue, you might think the apparatus just blushed because of the overwhelming intimacy.
When we experience new technologies like the recent reinvention of 3d cinema, we feel a kind of psychedelic stimulation. This little film test might give us an idea of the thrill of the first color motion pictures.
Die Reise ins Glück by Wenzel Storch
12 JunDie Reise ins Glück (2004) – that is the german original title of “A Journey Into Bliss”, – is a german underground movie by Wenzel Storch. When the credits were running I turned around in the cinema because I wanted to see if there were others who had witnessed this madness. This is a work of love and anarchic spirit. It’s kitsch and bad taste on lsd. It’s the end of psychoanalysis and most other ways of making sense. It’s something that should not even exist, something that needs you to confirm it’s very own way of resistance.
Thanks to Arjan for reminding me of it.
I love to laugh – A high dinner
10 JunA very high dinner, from Mary Poppins (1964).
(Link: Galia. Thanks!)
The Porpoise Song, The Monkees, out of Head (1968)
4 JunIn 1968, with the psychedelic and political revolution at its peak, even The Monkees, who were previously known as a standard commercial-pop group were working on a psychedelic film with revolutionary themes.
“Head” (1968), was very different from anything the Monkees have done before. It was psychedelically inspired and this is noticeable both in terms of music, as well as in terms of narrative and the character of the film.
The movie actually makes fun of the commercial plastic image of the monkees in a silly sounding song which goes:
He, hey, we are The Monkees
You know we love to please
A manufactured image
With no philosophies.
[...]
You say we’re manufactured.
To that we all agree.
So make your choice and we’ll rejoice
in never being free!
Hey, hey, we are The Monkees
We’ve said it all before
The money’s in, we’re made of tin
We’re here to give you more!
The money’s in, we’re made of tin
We’re here to give you…
The final “We’re here to give you…” is interrupted by a gunshot, and footage of an execution of a Viet Cong operative. The line between commercialism, revolution and psychedelics becomes blurred again and agin. Such messages are interspersed throughout the film, which has a variety of subversive moments.
The Porpoise Song which appears near the beginning of the film features Micky Dolenz and some beautiful psychedelic underwater colors. A prime example of 1960s psychedelic film aesthetics.
(Link: Morningloria. Thanks!)
Indicium part …
1 JunRemember this last story…
http://dailypsychedelicvideo.com/2011/04/27/dpv-first-year-anniversary-special-m-devavry-interview/
there’s something then,
just out from first show…
work in progres…
Dreams that Money can Buy
18 May
[ From Wiki]:
Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.
The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim.
Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger.
The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
Music: John Cage(segment “Discs”)
