Movies: Psychedelic

AMBIENT TRIP COMMANDER is the story of Samantha Tapferstern, a geeky young woman who lives a rather dull life in a medium-sized European city. She works a mundane job at a synthesizer store and spends her lonely evenings playing RPG games. One day sh...

"...I was playing it at the Cinematheque, and it got a lot of word of mouth in town. Everybody liked it because we used this really neat trick to put these images on Pat Barrington’s body as she was doing a belly dance. It was just perfect, and it w...

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Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. BE-IN contains Allen Ginsberg, Lawren...

Mateo and Lucía are moving abroad. The day before leaving, Mateo reunites with his lifelong friend, Dionisio, to spend one last summer afternoon together. However, as their inevitable goodbye inches closer, Mateo begins to perceive a series of strang...

A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist....

Based off the poem by H.P Lovecraft, it tells the tale of a dying man who slowly enters a strange dream world where he fades into oblivion....

TLMEA tells the story of two undercover cops, caught in a dream during a drug raid in which they descend into the 9th level of hell - the Ptolomea....

5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique" USA 1966-69, 3 min "San Francisco" Great Britain 1967/68, 15 min. "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable...

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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....

“’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...

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate inter...

Deftly riding the membrane between bathos and transcendence, a beautiful video feedback and computer animation film by Ron Hays with an instant classic synth score by Ragnar Grippe....

In a family torn by addiction, a timid teenager named Shane attempts to find and reunite with his older brother. When he gets to his destination, his entire reality is shattered by a mind-bending discovery....

In this 60 second art piece, a dog named Layla is called upon by nature to defend harmless daisy flowers from the wild grass that is conquering their territory....

Two roommates high on mushrooms must sort out their differences when one of them brings home a severed head....

What happens if you give magic mushrooms (psilocibine) to experienced Zen practitioners who have never used drugs? What does that teach us about the mystical experience of oneness with nature? Based on these questions, psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider...

The father tries to explain the meaning of the word "potets" allegorically to his sons, but they demand a direct answer. Only at the end of the movie it becomes clear that "potets" is......

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...