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Fantastic Planet (“La Planète Sauvage”)

1 Apr

..the beautiful and award-winning classic from 1973 by René Laloux!  It also has a great psychedelic soundtrack by Alain Goraguer (you might recognize some of the sounds from hip-hop producer Madlib’s “Quasimoto” project).

A Trip To The Moon

27 Jan


Georges Méliès’ 1901 classic Le Voyage dans la Lune is a psychedelic adventure. Even more so with color and set to AIR’s new song Sonic Armada.

Gravity // by Filip Piskorzynski

25 Jan

http://vimeo.com/34896859

A young woman wakes up to find that she has become weightless, and floats through life until gravity inevitably catches up with her…

– Filip Piskorzynski

Music : “Tasty City”
by Rone

Liquid Walking

17 Nov

 

You know the feeling…

Magic Trip

22 Sep

 

It’s been out for a while now. Check it out!

The Zoolander Brainwash

13 Aug

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”.

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 Jul

I 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 Jul

As 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 Jun

This 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.