In 1962, Bruce Conner left San Francisco and moved to Mexico, apparently intending to “wait out the impending nuclear holocaust”. He spent about a year in Mexico before running out of cash and patience, and returning to the United States. During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard.
Conner cut Looking for Mushrooms down to 100 feet in 1965 in order to fit it into an endless-loop cartridge for continuous projection. In 1967 he added a soundtrack by The Beatles (“Tomorrow Never Knows”).
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Bruce Conner: Looking for Mushrooms (1967)
6 SepJoy aka Joy by Alessandro Carvalho
10 Dec
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“Timothy Leary on the beach”, could have been an alternate title to this one, which features a Leary soundtrack and spectacular of the sea, a beautiful girl in bikini and the sunset. A feeling of nostalgia fills this 17 minutes long piece by Alessandro Carvalho which has a distinct 1960’s feel.
How to operate your brain
13 JanI love the way all these lectures get into the internet blood flow, remixed, re edited, and re-formed. operate your brain, don’t let it operate you!
Superjail’s Psyhcedelic Trip
22 MayIt does not get anymore trippy than this one. Superjail, a series described as psychedelic on Wikipedia, gives us an extreme hypertrip full of shiny colors and references to Yellow Submarine and Timothy Leary.
(Link: Avi Graiver. Thanks!)
The Daily Psychedelic Video 