“Blueberry”, A.K.A “Renegade” (2004) is one of the most psychedelic films I’ve ever seen. It is a rare film which has a trip-like feeling from beginning to end.
This sequence, portraying an Ayahuasca experience undergone by the hero Vincent Cassel near the end of the movie, is one of the most breathtaking depictions of the psychedelic experience ever created. Lo and behold.
Larry Carlson is a highly surreal visionary multi-media artist whose videos are among the most psychedelic I’ve seen in a long time. Mixing esoteric motives with science fiction themes and spooky music, Carlson draws one into a strangely appealing and very suggestive trip. Be sure to visit his site, probably one of the most psychedelic websites in existence…
Some clips just make you go: Wow!!! Then they make laugh uncontrollably for minutes at a time. And then watch them again, and again, and again. “Chotto Torimasuyo” by 2ch group Hachimiri, is certainly one of them. A crazy mixture of psychic visuals, Flash, hardcore techno music and anime aesthetics, of that special kind that only Japanese people could create.
I could not find any video-streaming version of this one, so you have to press the link and download the .swf file which will play on your browser. But it is worth it, oh yeah!
(Link: Assaf Tamari. Thank!)
Some kind soul uploaded the complete feature film of the radical jazz musician Sun Ra. It mixes intelligent alien life with ancient Egyptian art, black pride, God, the Devil and ho so wonderful music.
Strata cut is an animation technique invented by David Daniels. He explains:
“Stratacut is the revealed technique in a way but what you are really doing is sculpting time. You are creating these blobby-spaghetti extrusions with a lot of distortions in them. You are calculating how they will be revealed in time. The potential energy that has been sculpted into them is revealed as kinetic energy once it is cut apart. So I tried to figure out all the possible geometric principals on which the twisting of the shapes would yield the ideal result; the blinking eyes, rotating faces, walking, etc.”
the whole interview in “The Art Of the Title Sequence” is highly recommended.
The next clip is from his cult student film “Buzz Box”, I think it’s brilliant, but might freak you out:
A 3rd millenium version to the 60’s style psychedelia, after a Beatles song.
(Link: Paujogoerin. Thanks!)
A beautiful 3D animation done by Ian Clemmer. This one is part of the Viusic series of 12 videos which Clemmer created for his bachelor thesis. Way to go Ian!
This is a one-shot video, that to my opinion makes the most of the trail effect. I recommend the really sweet making-of video, where they coin the oh-so-useful term “Psychediculous”
An extremely beautiful and psychedelic animation done by 3D artist Martin Stebbing who has a bunch of similarly styled video on his YouTube account. Things you can do with a computer these days… Fantastic!!!
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