Some kind soul uploaded the complete feature film of the radical jazz musician Sun Ra. It mixes intelligent alien life with ancient Egyptian art, black pride, God, the Devil and ho so wonderful music.
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Across the Universe – Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
3 SepA 3rd millenium version to the 60’s style psychedelia, after a Beatles song.
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Psychedelic Visions from Other Worlds
1 Sep
Other worlds – J. Kounen (2004)
Ayahuasca induced DMT visions guided by Shipibo Shamens deep in the Peruvian Amazons. This is the final scene from Jan Kounen’s documentary Other Worlds (“D’Autres Mondes”).
…We all share a universal mythology, which serves as a source for the visions. Each and every one of us is an infinite universe, where angels and demons make up our thoughts, emotions, memory and our body…
For more information: http://otherworlds.jankounen.com/#
Psychedelic James Bond
17 Aug
A nice psychedelic touch to this James Bond opening titles sequence.
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Zabriskie Point: final sequence
16 AugThe final sequence from Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni is very much a visually mesmerizing meditation on destruction and beauty, imagination and revolutionary action. The movie does not agree with any of the offered positions, neither of the radical students nor the “bourgeoise establishment”. This sequence stands like a bold and richly ornamented question mark at the end of the movie.
Invocation of my demon brother by Kenneth Anger
8 AugIn the 1960s U.S. underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger released a “Sacred Mushroom Edition” of his earlier film “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”. It was meant to be screened to people while taking LSD. In his movies occult, homoerotic and surreal themes often merged to a truely psychedelic vision.
Altered states – Ken Russel 1980
28 Jul
The hero, an Californian anthropologist study the intake of mushroom during a Shamanic ceremony…
Disney’s Fantasia
25 JulAnother psychedelic classic by Disney. In 1940 Fantasia introduced shimmering abstract figuration morphing to the pulse of music as a subject of public viewing. Synaethetics for the masses.
Attack of The Killer Ants
17 JulIt sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?
2001: A Space Odyssey
4 JulThis is just another classic of psychedelic visualization. And a gorgeous one it is!
The sequence within the movie is far too long to be reduced to a mere sign or reference to the psychedelic counter culture of the time (’68). It ripps right through the fabric of a reality of symbolic economies by showing itself immune to any reduction of meaning; it has to be watched.
After this sequence an orgy of symbolism takes place (in a baroque “life as dream” setting). But for the time of the flow of images even the anticipated junky for meaning will enjoy the spiritual peace of tripping.
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