Movies: Psychedelic

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples....

A psychedelic horror-comedy starring Last Podcast On The Left’s Henry Zebrowski and Bay Area legend Skinner, and featuring special effects from Shane Morton, the mastermind behind Mandy’s Cheddar Goblin....

Two friends battle boredom with the power of their bong and marijuana, but failed to consider the perils of smoking on the couch....

Contemplations is an exploration of the depths and meanings of the psychedelic states, a collection of journeys, wisdom and insights from Australian entheogenic exploers....

A boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become indistinguishable. Tanaami shot a boxing match on a Motordrive camera, made two thousand offset prin...

A psychedelic experience in an abandoned warehouse is interrupted by a building inspector and a talking rat....

A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French...

A star-driven spiraling machine of hallucinatory wonder!...

One of Otto Messmer's most unusual Felix cartoons. It portrays Felix as an inebriated feline being chased by all kinds of demons only to be welcomed by the greatest demon of all, the angry wife....

An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound design....

“’Psych-Burn’ was what musicians call a ‘contract-breaker’. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV Pilot. “Love-In Tonite” was to be a psychedelic rock variety show with live performances, skits, and whatnot to cash in on the e...

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen....

A delinquent tomboy takes the job of a murderous carney's assistant....

Through a very surreal chase of spying and surveillance, Catafuse, a dubiously dressed "creature", hunts down specific human targets with the help of Molosstrap. But in a world completely run by the shadowy hands of the pharmaceutical industry, the l...

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. [The song] "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, who was Mary Pickford's husban...

Directed and Animated by Eric Leiser....

60 shorts. 60 minutes. FLOWER HOUR is a psychedelic parody of the online drinking game created by over 100 artists, musicians, and filmmakers, both local to New Mexico and international....

When Billy tries shrooms for the first time, the last thing he expects is his mother asking him to go and pick up some milk......

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane....

A documentary by Craig Smith shot in West Virginia, USA; on the drug taking and sexual promiscuity within the USA....