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The Trip (1967)

Peter Fonda was involved in a number of psychedelic films in the end of the 1960s, among them the classic Easy Rider and Psych Out, both of which featured the psychonauts-friendly young Jack Nicholson. The Trip (1967) is perhaps the most psyhedelically ambitious film of them all: it is perhaps the only film which is wholly dedicated to following one trip of one person for almost the whole duration of the film. Anyway you look at it, it is a unique cinematic adventure in psychedelia.

You can watch the entirety of the film on YouTube in the link above.

Tags: jack nicholson, peter fonda, the trip

Contact High

3 Aug

Sometimes nothing is more psychedelic than a Disney movie. The bright colors and archetypal figures often evoke the puerile side of altered states. This video uses footage from Fantasia (1940) with Architecture in Helsinki’s song “Contact High.”

Tags: architecture in helsinki, contact high, disney, fantasia

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Categories psychedelic animation, Psychedelic Cinema, Psychedelic Music Clips
Author W3bb

Silver Strain – The Jihad of Muad’Dib [Dune]

31 Jul

Amazing fake trailer for a film existing only in our dreams.

Tags: giger, jodorowsky

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Categories Psychedelic Art, Psychedelic Cinema
Author Holographic Elf

Apocalypse Now: The Explosion of the Kurtz Compound Set

15 Jul

“Of course we thought, well, lets blow it up and photograph it…” (Coppola’s comment on his obligation to remove the structure build for the set of the Kurz Compound)

I suggest Apocalypse Now as another classic of psychedelic cinema.

One of the strongest psychedelic scenes was not even a part of the movie. You actually see the set for the Kurz Compound being blown up after the shooting of the movie was finished. Using the footage for the ending credits let to a lot of speculation about an alternative ending (check out Coppola’s comment in the link above for more information – also for better video quality).

Tags: apocalypse now, psychedelic explosions

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Author 7eit

Indigenous Animation – Huichol style animation feature film trailer

14 Jul

“Cuentos Huicholes de la creation” is a trailer for what would be a feature film based on ancient stories of the Huichol people, a native American group from Central Mexico. It makes use of Huichol style paintings in a fantastic way.

(Link: Mae5. Thanks!)

Tags: Cuentos Huicholes de la creation, huichol, indigenous, native american

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Categories psychedelic animation, Psychedelic Art, Psychedelic Cinema
Author Ido Hartogsohn

The Easy Rider Cemetery Scene

16 Jun

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and two prostitutes drop acid in a cemetery in New Orleans. The Easy Rider acid scene is one of the most influential LSD scenes of 1960’s cinema. Click here if you want to watch it in better quality (but with Italian dubbing) or here if you want to watch the full movie online.

Tags: 1960s psychedelia, easy rider, peter fonda

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Author Ido Hartogsohn

Gandahar

13 Jun

Gandahar (René Laloux), is a French animated science fiction and fantasy film released in 1988 in the U.S. It is based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar).

The peaceful people of Gandahar are suddenly attacked by an army of automatons known as the Men of Metal, who march through the villages and petrify their victims with lasers. The resulting statues are then collected and transferred to their base. At the capital city of Jasper, the Council of Women orders Sylvain to investigate. On his journey, he encounters the Deformed, a race of mutant beings who were accidentally created via genetic experimentation by Gandahar’s scientists. Despite their resentment, they are also threatened by the Men of Metal and offer to help Sylvain.

A European DVD release of Gandahar, in French with English subtitles, was released in October 2007[2] by Eureka!’s Masters of Cinema label.

Tags: cartoon, french animation, Gandahar, psychedelic, René Laloux

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Categories psychedelic animation, Psychedelic Cinema, psychedelic movies, Psychedelic Visuals
Author baba samas

Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – The trippy hotel scene

9 Jun

It is hard to believe but the amazing hotel scene from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one of the classic psychedelic works of literature and film, has not been featured on the DPV as yet. Today is a good day to set things right. The trippy hotel scene, featuring Johnny Depp is a great example for the very distinct type of psychedelic humor where the joke lies in the gap between what the protagonist conceives through his hallucinations, and the actual ‘objective’ reality as it is seen by the camera/others. The hotel scene is one of the best renditions of a psychedelic experience on film, and one of the most hilarious at that.

Tags: 1990s psychedelia, fear and loathing in las vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, johnny depp, terry gilliam

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Author Ido Hartogsohn

The Fountain // Darren Aronofsky

16 May

This is one of my favorite movie !

it’s full of beautiful soundtracks (by Clint Mansell) and really nice visual scenes.

Tags: aronofski, fountain, mansell

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Author baba samas

Inception // how to build dreams

9 May

In the great movie “Inception” (Christopher Nolan), Leonardo DiCaprio teaches how to build dreams and evolve inside it.

Enjoy the great rendered effects pointing a way to play with reality, illusion, and evolve in the “Maya” (just in the between of reality and illusion), and now, try to understand what we live in the real life, as quantum physics could explain it !