Original title – Acid Rain Director – Tomek Popakul Writer – Tomek Popakul Producer – Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek Voices – Daria Bułka, Piotr Bułka, Maciej Miszczak Year – 2019 Country – Poland FESTIVALS Anima – Brussels Animation Film Festival | February 2020 | Belgium Winner Grand Jury Prize | Angers European Short Films Festival | January 2020 | France Annie Awards | January 2020 | USA Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival | August 2019 | Kosovo Annecy International Animated Film Festival | June 2019 | France Sundance Film Festival | January – February 2019 | USA Rotterdam International Film Festival | January 2019 | Netherlands
A lost girl falls in love with a bad boy on a road-trip | Acid rain – by Tomek Popakul
9 Mar1940s AURORATONE (Restored!) featuring Bing Crosby
17 FebAuroratone films were produced by the Auroratone Foundation of America Inc. in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The films showed crystal-like abstract color patterns that changed and blended with each other. The patterns were produced by using crystallizing chemicals and polarized light, which were then synchronized to a variety of recorded musical tracks. The process was developed by English psychologist and scientist Cecil Stokes, who was the founder and technical director of the company. Stokes was issued patent 2292172 on August 4, 1942, for “Process and Apparatus for Producing Musical Rhythm in Color”.
The films were combined into a thirty-minute-long color movie entitled Music In Color. The first films were presented to the public in 1940 in San Diego and were then shown at various theaters in the United States and Canada.
Man or Tree (short film by Varun Raman & Tom Hancock)
12 SepIn the wilderness, a tree begins to question whether it may actually be a man tripping on hallucinogens.
Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (Jud Yalkut, 1967)
9 JulClassic psychedelic video from 1967, by USCO member and experimental filmmaker Jud Yalkut (who also created the film 1966 DMT, based on Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic Prayers), celebrating the psychedelic works of outsider artist, Yayoi Kusama, who would later go on to become the most successful female artist globally.













