Whenever I book a flight to a big city I try to make it a night landing. Those pulsing breathing organisms of light look so alien and soothing.
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Space Siren and Sleepy Sweet by Pram
31 JulYou might very well ask: so, what is supposed to be psychedelic about the clip above? Isn’t this just a bunch of very normal scientists really involved in what they are doing? Well, I can not say you are wrong. But there is just something that strikes me odd about the way their curiosity shows… also one of the papier-mâché aliens has, you know, kinda wide pupils (he’s in a dark room after all).
If you did like the Broadcast clips here and here, you might enjoy Pram’s weirdness as well. Check it out!
Broadcast and the Focus Group
24 Julvexyvex has posted Broadcasts beautiful papercuts clip on this site a while ago. Here are some of the clips from their collaboration with Julian House. They are alive with a playful and childlike psychedelic spirit mixed with lots of occult symbols and imagery.
Popee The Performer is here to freak you out!
10 JulIn case you ever thought that even a bad trip has some truth to tell you, there should be more than enough truth in this show to endure its uncanny “realism”.
Please be careful watching this in any unstable condition of the mind and… enjoy!
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.
More Uncanny Recursions by Cyriak
19 JunThis is not the first but the (1, 2, 3…) fourth time that cyriak’s videos are featured here on dpv. Enjoy these recent additions to his worlds of uncanny and beautiful recursion (you might even find some resemblance to minecraft’s blocky universe)!
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.
Light Emerges by Akron/Family
5 JunIn this video by Kelsey Harris and J Logan Corcoran the dark psychedelic atmosphere is achieved through the most simple means. It’s just like a daisy chain of swirling spotlight petals.
