Indian-Canadian animator Ishu Patel in a 1978 movie about the after life.
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SHORT stories – Pretty, Dead – Jeff Scher
19 JunPretty Dead by Jeff Scher is a beautifully animated homage to the labyrinthical narratives of film noir.
La Faim (Hunger) – Peter Foldès
1 JunLa Faim (Hunger) is a 1974 short film by Peter Foldes, and one of the first computer generated films. An impressive work with a psychedelic edge.
Zerogon (By Joshua Planz & John Mattiuzzi)
25 MayA lonely creature, on a lonely planet, abducted into the false allure of a computer generated world.
Machu Picchu
27 AprAn airplane pilot unawaredly enters a shamanic flying zone, resulting in an almost fatal accident.
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Tenacious D // The Effects of LSD
15 Aprhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUn9iEPosk By Liam Lynch With Jack Black & Kyle Gass
THO-OG: An esoteric and surreal psychedelic short film
11 Mar
Story about the adventure to another world. Directed by Konstantin Plotnikov.
This film tells a story of a soul traveling in a different unknown world. Every sensitive spirit has to contact with a reality that is beyond the perception of most people, down to earth, practical people. In THO-OG perceptive people will see the world where their souls dwell. The main character of the film is one of them.
Jan Svankmajer films
2 MarIt was hard to believe. I searched the DPV a number of time before I could believe that we don’t have anything by Czech master Jan Svankmajer yet. For those of you who don’t know Svankmajer, a more significant introduction to the work of the Czech animator might be required than I can supply here, and you can find some information here on wikipedia.
Here I’ll just say that Svankmajer is a highly renowned animator and filmmaker whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Terry Gilliam and Milos Forman ever since the 1980s. These two short movies, “Dimensions of Dialogue” and “Tma, Svetlo, Tma” should serve as a decent introduction to his highly surrealistic world.
Magic trip and Ken Kesey’s acid test videos
27 FebBack when acid was mostly known as an experimental drug examined for its exotic effects on consciousness and its potential therapeutic value, Ken Kesey was among the first who came up with the idea of using it to party and explore reality intuitively. After publishing his masterpiece “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, which he wrote on acid, inspired by the acid experiences he had in CIA LSD experiments, Kesey assembled a group of intrepid freakstes around him. Otherwise known as the merry pranksters, this merry group of psychonauts initiated the famous 1960’s acid tests, which were basically the first acid parties. All the while, they shot an experimental psychedelic film, while on acid. But the group couldn’t get its mind around how to edit the film, which was to be edited from hundreds of hours of fragmentary materials. Only in 2011 was it finally released as part of a film called “Magic Trip” about Kesey and his group, and if you have anything more than a fleeting interesting psychedelics I suggest you check it out soon to get better acquainted with Kesey and his group. Above the trailer to the magic trip video. Below, an animation accompanying a conversation with Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead, reminiscing about the acid tests. And finally, the acid test graduation film.
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