If history can be psychedelic it is Adam Curtis that makes it so. The big master of historical narrative, montage, jump cuts, and archival materials was back this year with a new masterpiece exploring everything that went wrong with the world since 1945 and why it did so. Ambitious, pretentious, and exceptionally beautiful and moving – if you haven’t watched it, you definitely should.
Protagonist Barry’s trip in Panos Cosmatos’s brilliant Beyond the Black Rainbow. The full film features sublime psychedelic aesthetics throughout. A brilliantly unsettling film.
“I watched “The Sunshine Makers” (2015) on Prime the other night. Today I wanted to look at its poster, so I searched for it on Google and stumbled across this 1935 animated short. I didn’t find it particularly trippy in execution, but the idea of bottling and delivering sunshine by happy hippies, er, pixies, sure felt prescient. In fact, their lab at 1:17 (https://youtu.be/84StCRUgG18?t=77) reminded me in no small way of the labs where Scully and Sands made their ‘sunshine’.”
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