AYA: Awakenings is a narrative documentary into the world and visions of ayahuasca shamanism, adapted from the cult book ‘Aya: a Shamanic Odyssey’ by Rak Razam. By blending narration directly from the book with video footage, interviews with practicing curanderos, samples of traditional icaros or magic songs, photographs and cutting edge special effects, Aya: Awakenings reproduces the inner landscape of the visionary state in unprecedented detail, invoking a spiritual awakening in the viewer.
An excerpt from the feature documentary by Louie Schwartzberg following notable mycologist, Paul Stamets, as he discusses the important role mushrooms play in the survival and health of the earth and human species.
This is probably one of the cutest things I saw in my life. Bianca Giaver asked a six years old what her film should be about. She directed the story he told her verbatim and with the sweetest devotion. The result is funny, inspiring and psychedelic.
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This is what the makers of this video say about it:
When a lonely young woman in London faces an ever growing loss of identity, the only thing she can cling onto are her melancholic devotion to her snake and plants. Unfortunately flora doesn’t talk back and her snake is radiating a mysterious glare as ever. Mysteriously her plant shows her that there is enlightenment to be found sipping through the cracks of consciousness. She decides to see how deep the rabbit hole goes and aligns back with her true self.
An attempt to simulate the dissociative effects of Salvia Divinorum in both audio and visual.
Anna and Bella is an 1 984Oscar award winning short film by Danish director Borge Ring. It follows the lives of two sisters from childhood to reincarnation (don’t miss the last seconds). Beautiful and moving.
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The mother and father of the world are wondering at the follies of their human children. An anti-materialistic, anti-nationalistic film created by Faith and John Hubley, sponsored by “The Institute for World Order” with an original and beautiful soundtrack by the one and only Dizzy Gillespie.
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The film is an allegorical comment on the moral neutrality of technology and the potentially destructive powers of propaganda. Blackwolf’s secret weapon is propaganda, used to incite and motivate his legions and terrorize the good fairy folk of Montagar; Blackwolf also utilizes technology for evil ends. However, in the end, it is Avatar’s willingness to use a technological tool (a handgun pulled from “up his sleeve”) which saves them all. Bakshi also states that Wizards “was about the creation of the state of Israel and the Holocaust, about the Jews looking for a homeland, and about the fact that fascism was on the rise again”.
Some of you might remembers the Spiritual Cuisine video featured here in 2011. Here is another psychedelic food video, a stop motion mandala created from peppers rice, peanuts, kale, Coffee beans, and spices.
This video was made from 2000 silhouettes extracted from PVC plates using a computer-controlled cutter. Beautiful.
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