I consider this sort of proto-post psychedelia. Bruce Connor’s imagery is both mind altering and domestic. The music and imagery evoke altered states of consciousness with an edgy and dangerous leaning. If you find yourself in NYC, check out the Bruce Connor retrospective at MOMA.
The deliciously psychedelic music clip from the excellent film “That sugar film” will teach you all about the dangers of sugar and how it lurks around so many types of processed foods.
If you went tripping back in the 1940s, the finale for three caballeros would probably have been the most psychedelic video around…
Some 1940s Caribbean psychedelia for you. Courtesy of Busby Berkeley.
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The Dream Hunt (Na’vi name: Uniltaron) is a rite of passage, in which Na’vi seek their spirit animal. During a chemically induced trance caused by the bite of an arachnoid and swallowing a glow worm, they express themselves musically as the spirit moves.
Uniltaron songs are especially interesting. While under the chemically induced effects that mark the Dream Hunt, a Na’vi may utilize any kind of expression: standard social song structures, imitations of domestic cascading vocal style, children’s songs from deep in their memories, wildly improvised songs or chants. The only type of songs not heard in this context are personal songs and the ritual songs of mourning.
Vision Quest in Avatar Movie – Deleted Scene
This is the Vision Quest Ceremony that did not make it into the final movie. Please take note that the Dream Hunt / vision quest requires two separate chemicals – just as Ayahuasca…
The Na’vi’s nearly telepathic understanding of their environment is grounded not only in ritual, plant-lore, and that earnest seriousness that now afflicts PC Hollywood Indians, but in an organic communications network: the fibrous, animated, and vaguely repulsive pony-tail tentacles that not only allow the Na’vi to form direct control links with animals but also, through the optical filaments of the “Tree of Souls,” to commune with both ancestors and the Eywa (=Ayahuasca), the biological spirit of the planet whose name resonates with Erda, our own Earth.
Ashes to snow is one of the most impressively psychedelic films I have watched. It is like a prayer that slowly enfolds on the screen, escorting the viewer through endless realms of devotion. A film which aims to capture that elusive moment of awareness and bring it to the screen. I highly recommend watching the full thing with open eyes and heart and an expanded mind.
If you liked Jodrowski’s Holy Mountain, you might also enjoy Parjanov’s The Color of Pommegrantes (1969) which might very well be called the soviet holy mountain.
“Average injection 50 micrograms. 50. I’m making it a hundred.” And so begins the first LSD scene in the history of cinema, which was featured, how suitable for the 1950s – in a horror film, in which LSD is described as a drug that will make all of your nightmares become alive and fill you with unbearable fear. What a peculiar notion 🙂 The scientist in the movie is interested in studying fear so he takes LSD, and boy does he go mad…
After failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent (Ron Perlman) must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager (Rupert Grint) to develop the biggest con of all time-staging the moon landing.
Director: Antoine Bardou-Jacquet
Writer: Dean Craig
// In Cyprus these days to participate @ Order and Disorder in Chaos //
Through the ancient ruins of an gunpowder factory, giant rock wheels, rusty bolts, labyrinthic impasses and water dance to the rhythm of Eznekier’s beats.
CYPRUS is a synthesiser-driven score that combines sub-genres from 1980’s retro-futuristic soundtracks and ambient-leaning 2010s post-rock. Inspired by its post-apocalyptic vibe, the video provides an acid mix of natural and post-industrial elements, with no humans or living creatures at sight and made almost entirely out of landscape stills.
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