Mind-bending, gravity defying choreography enhanced by 3d projections, in this video, choreographed by Sila Sveta and Anna Abalikhina. Dancer: Jura Chulkov.
Tag Archives: russian psychedelia
“Sleep” by Dan The Automator/Kool Keith
10 JulThe Animation is from “Голубой щенок” (“Blue Puppy”).
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“The 7th Element” by Vitas
5 JulVitas (Vitalii Vladasovich Grachyov) is a russian fashion designer, movie as well as stage actor and professional tenor (who’s voice is said to span 5 octaves). His space hippie opera was pretty popular both in Russia and China at the time.
Lest Ye Become a Monster
27 DecNearly everyone I’ve shown this video has said they wished they understood the lyrics. I haven’t been able to find the article for some time, but I remember years ago reading an interview in which the artist said that the video was supposed to be about people’s tendency to shape their identities according to their profession, trying to make themselves more closely resemble some kind of ideal prototype of a master of this occupation. If there are any Russian-speakers out there, maybe you can confirm or refute this?
Regardless of the meaning, there is something I find oh so visually satisfying in the marching sequence and the clay homunculus that accompanies each profession. The rap might be a bit abrasive, but now that this one’s a staple of my collection, I always find myself trying to mumble along despite not speaking a word of Russian.
And if you dig the featured artist, maybe search our archives for Lyapis Trubetskoy…
(Thank you, Warren, for showing me this years ago.)
Lyapis Trubetskoy – Capital
20 MayAn anti-capitalistic song from Russia with fun psychedelic visuals.
(Link: Renegadesalmon. Thanks!)
The Animations of Yuri Norstein
25 MarYuri Norstein’s beautiful animations “Seasons” and “Hedgehog in the Fog” may not be psychedelic in an explicit way. But I think their richness in texture and form and “sense of metamorphosis” make them more than suitable to our purpose of providing you with something beautiful and maybe even meaningful to watch when in that… special kind of mood. Enjoy!
“Hedgehog in the Fog” is one of my all-time favourites!
Mr. Freeman – Episode 0
7 JanThe first episode of Mr. Freeman, one of the more original and refreshing internet phenomena to have emerged in the last years, is a dark pitched appeal to consumers of mass-reality to start questioning their existence as part of the big machine.
This primitivistically drawn and ingeniously dubbed video which became an huge internet hit on the russian web, is a like concentrated mind-shattering medicine to hyper-mediated brains fettered by mass-media and a call to go out of your mind, out of the constraints of culture (Remember Terence Mckenna who said: Culture is not your friend) and find the path to true existence.
(If you don’t speak Russian, it would be a good idea to turn on the captions “CC” button)
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