Movies: Psychedelic

Retelling of the classic children's tale from a 1960s psychedelic viewpoint....

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human condition. Part I tells the story of a postapocalyptic world where a Man feeds the ocean his blood in...

An astronaut is detached from his space station, taken into an infinite drift throughout the universe. Freed from time and space, DRIFTER is confronted with the void. He takes a dive into the unknown, in search of the ultimate freedom....

A data moshed experiment using videos of daily life and textures overlayed with components from older videos creating a personal collage of the last few years....

After a long night at the club two lonely people make a tender and tenuous connection on the streets of Brooklyn in the wee hours of the morning....

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One of Oskar Fischinger's earliest films, Seelische Konstruktionen (as it is known in German), clearly points the way to the masterpieces of musically-blended experimental animation he would conceive in the decades to come. The sense of masterful tim...

A "hero" steps out for work on a rainy Monday with a red umbrella, unaware he's the star of a cosmic show. Rain falls, thoughts swirl, and reality bends. Is this just another day, or the beginning of something out of normalcy?...

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

A fisherman comes across a mysterious woman who emerges from the depths, who uses her beauty to lure him into the lake....

A kid experiences the dreamlike qualities of his childhood all over again....

1993 recording of band Les Rallizes Dénudés performing at the Baus Theater....

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A contemporary man in the eye of the cyclone created by information. He finds no support for his hands and feet. It’s like in a poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz (‘falling in every direction’), he turns to dust when his time finally comes....

Caleb Loomis is an agoraphobic twenty-something. In his spare time he makes UFO videos with miniature cities and takes an unhealthy amount of LSD. One afternoon he hears Beatrice, the lady next door, being abused. After striking an odd friendship thr...

A new young man is accepted into a college campus, making new friends and meeting new people. Including a girl, who he falls in love with, but slowly begins to psychologically and psychedelically torment his first night of college, as he later become...

Plagued by visions of what her future could look like, Marcy becomes addicted to a pill that gives her vivid dreams and changes her appearance....

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami....

A struggling drug addict is plunged into a tortured netherworld, where he must defend his spirit from a ravenous horde of soul-addicted junkies....

Tired of her life, a girl sets out to wake up and construct her own reality....