According to Grizzly Bear’s tumblr in the video for “gun-shy” the members of the band are trying to extract the essence of creativity from their bodies. To do that they use a lot of medical lab equipment. This is the occasion for director Kris Moyes to present a slick blend of psychedelic and medical visualizations. This mix might be surprising at first but it also makes a lot of sense. Like deep-sea and outer space in the 19th century, the unknown space of the mind and the microcosm of the human body have been explored, mapped, imagined and visualized (I guess also colonized) since the beginning of the 20th century. In a way all those fantastic worlds take part in the metaphor of the “other space”… and in many ways they all provide excellent material for trippy videos. Look for yourself!
The Dark Crystal
16 Jan
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world…
This is 1982 fantasy movie showing puppets in a long adventure, and contains some psychedelic parts !
1982. Dir: Jim Henson/Frank Oz.
When Do We Eat (2005)
14 JanWhen do we eat is a film about a Seder meal that goes wrong, but then actually right, after the father of the family has been surreptitiously dosed with MDMA and LSD. Except for the ending it is a pretty awesome psychedelic comedy which actually deals in a funny intelligent way with the psychedelic experience. Stick around for the last 40 seconds of the video to catch the trippy bits.
What dreams may come
5 Dec
In this 1998 movie, relating a possible life after death, R. Williams has a great sensory experience !
Dum Maaro Dum
28 Nov
Psychdelic rock style + Bollywood = !!
Movie: Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Music Director: Shibu Pintu, R D Burman
Singers: Asha Bhosle
Director: Dev Anand
The trippiest films ever made by flavorwire
17 NovFlavorwire composed a video essay of “The trippiest films ever made” and while there is a bit too much emphasis on the horror and gore part of the word “trippy”, it’s still a very illuminating video.
Video excerpts are taken from a great number of classics and cults including (in order of appearance): “The Trip (1967, Roger Corman), Head (1968, Bob Rafelson),Glaze of Cathexis (1990, Stan Brakhage), Allegro Non Troppo (1976, Bruno Bozzetto), Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone), Fantasia (1940, Armstrong, Algar, et. al), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick), Viva La Muerte (1971, Fernando Arrabal), The Holy Mountain(1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Performance (1970, Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg), Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg), Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas), Belle De Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel), Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch), El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Tetsouro, the Iron Man (1989, Shin’ya Tsukamoto), Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch), Dead Alive (1992, Peter Jackson), Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater), Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay), Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch), Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel), Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky), Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch), Pi (1998, Darren Aronofsky), Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper), The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen), Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg), Skidoo (1968, Otto Preminger), Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze).”
For more details see here.
Good Books Great Writers Series – Metamorphosis
3 NovAnother Hunter S. Thompson hallucination. Pretty wild.
(Link: Timo. Thanks!)
Zohi Sdom – Sugar trip scene
1 OctThe Israeli film “Zohi Sdom” which tells the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, has this scene in which Lot goes a sugar trip which seems like a mixture of the effects of acid and cocaine.
Epilepsy / Zixidi
29 Aughttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmt02h_epilepsie_creation
A guy is playing with a game console,
he begins to feel some strange feelings,
these feelings keep on getting more strange…
Zixidi prod.
Ha-Kochav Ha-Kachol opening scene – 1995
25 AugHa-Kochav Ha-Kachol (Blue Panet) is probably the only Israeli psychedelic feature film ever done. It is a tale about a guy who arrives at the Tel Aviv Bus Station, gets his stuff stolen by a hobo, and then embarks on a cosmic adventure. Directed by Gur Bentvich the film used to be screened at the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque every Friday on midnight for a number years during the nineties.
The opening sequence, has a very low-budget but well made psychedelic animation sequence.
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