THE PSYCHEDELIC FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

December 14-15, 2024

New York, New York

ALL DAY FESTIVAL PASSES $35

Saturday, December 14

THE PRODUCERS CLUB

12 Noon- 2PM

SHADES OF PSYCHEDELIA

Breaking Out

Director David Glass

United States, 6 min

Breaking Out” is centered around a tumultuous piano improvisation David Glass recorded several years ago. The short film is a psychological rollercoaster containing a variety of footage that express a wide range of intense emotions and strong forces of nature, and yet there is a beauty to the chaos. As in a ballet, the music is in synchronicity with the dramatic



The Sun is Always Shining

Director Claudia Bicen

United States, 3 min

The Sun is Always Shining is a short hand-drawn animation where Dr Dan Brown, Tibetan Buddhist scholar and Harvard clinical psychologist, discusses the nature of awareness and self.

Haven

Director Alison Chang

Taiwan, 6 min

"HAVEN", is an experimental film that delves into the visualization of human emotions, focusing on the journey from anxiety to self-reconciliation. It portrays the protagonist's escape from Plato’s allegorical cave into a three-tiered structure within a fallen angel, symbolizing the blend of mind and body, and concludes in a tranquil forest symbolizing inner peace.


Et Ignis Involvens

Director Joao Pedro Oliveira

Portugal, 11 min

This video is inspired on the first vision of the prophet Ezechiel (Ezechiel 1:4):
“et vidi et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab aquilone et nubes magna et ignis involvens et splendor in circuitu eius et de medio eius quasi species electri id est de medio ignis”
“And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself; and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire”

Les Bêtes

Director Michael Granberry

United States, 12 min

A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich

The Dissolution of the Landscape

Director Anne-Marie Bouchard

Canada, 22 min

Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.

Can We Really Know Anything About Carrots?

Director Scott Bateman

United States. 5 min

An artificial intelligence asks the Big Questions in this animated film featuring AI-generated art, script, music, and narration.

Mamaicha, Pretty Much

Director Noah Frech

Germany, 7 min

"A lover's dance weaves through a kaleidoscope of dreams where fate unfolds in shifting, spectral visions."

Profane Riddles

Director Nick Didkovsky

United States. 4 min

Tiles of images taken from obsessively micro-detailed art are arranged in concentric patterns that seem to crawl. Enigmatically embroidered electric guitar provides the music.

Elegy in Light                                    

Director Zareh Tjeknavorian

Armenia, 11 min

Elegy in Light", shot on super 8mm film at the funeral of Catholicos Vazgen I, Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians, depicts an ancient and rarely seen rite of the Armenian Church with the sound of monastic ritual chant: an experience described by one viewer as "a psychedelic trip into medieval times."

Mariposas                                      

Director Adrian Carey

United States, 3 min

Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.     

Demi-Demons

Director Martin Gerigk

Germany, 18min

Demi-Demons is an essay film about the contradictions of contemporary existence, which separate us from our natural instincts, opening abysses within us. The glorification of the hermaphrodite, the hedonism of virtual realities, the search for new levels of physical attraction and forms of higher consciousness, ambivalence towards sexual reproduction, these abysses embody the existential struggles inherent in navigating the terrain between instinct and enlightenment in a rapidly evolving world

2PM-4PM

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

AYAHUASCA NOW

Ayahuasca Now

Director Carlos Cejas

Producer Mario Jorge Stecher

Argentina, 90 minutes

Ayahuasca now is a powerful documentary about a group of men and women veterans from the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars.Feeling trapped by their suffering and misunderstood by those around them, they embark on a journey to the Amazon jungle in search of one last chance at redemption  Just voices of a silent war.

Q@A After the Screening


3PM-4PM

PLAY



Timothy X’s Journey from PTSD To Wholeness

Director/ Writer Dan Abella

This play is a reenactment of a session with a Afghanistan war veteran. The play explores the nature of PTSD and Survivor’s guilt

4PM-530PM

DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION

LIFE AND BREATH

Life and Breath

Director Mustapha Khan

US, 75 min

A new documentary exploring Holotropic Breathwork, LIFE AND BREATH takes us into an extraordinary group Breathwork session in Vermont, where an eclectic collection of scholars, artists and dreamers are instructed to simply: "Breathe until you are surprised."



530PM-7PM

THE SEARCH FOR TRANSCENDENCE

Liminal Space: Diving Within

Director Anahita Safarnejad Choobary

Germany, 20 minutes

A poetic exploration of a father-daughter relationship. Anahita grows up in front of her father's camera. A dreamy life fulfilled with love and poetry evolves into a nightmare in which she witnesses her identity get lost as her father dies of cancer. In her quest to understand death, she dives into a rollercoaster ride of unknown emotions and embarks on a voyage of acceptance. From death into an immortal world.


TV Madness

Submitter Michael Bohacz

United States, 3 minutes


This Moment in Time                                      

Submitter Tom Ryan

United States, 4 minutes

Santo Daime-                                            

Director luigi cazzaniga

United States, 12 minutes

A movie about the making of Ayahuaska by the Santo Daime people in the Amazons

Chromatic Symphony                                    

Director Hüseyin Mert Erverdi

Turkey, 2 min

In Chromatic Symphony (2023), the colors embark on a journey, seeking to illuminate the world and fill it with their vibrant presence. Meanwhile, the enigmatic black forms, dance and weave through the canvas. The chase between the colors and darkness unfolds in a series of rapidly cut,

 

Money, Fascism, and some sort of Acid

Director Janek Ambros  

United States, 30 minutes

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.


Clockwork/FOLD

Director Malte F Bartels
Germany, 2 minutes

Music: The minimalistic track "Clockwork" by The Careless Responders
Video: The analog Film FOLD by Malte Bartels, showing a paper boat being folded

Fixing a Hole #2

Director Pierre Ajavon

France, 6 min

By trying to fix a hole to stop our mind from wandering on the other side…
“Fixing a Hole” uses my own lunar films mixed with an experimental electronic music composition including NASA lunar sound recordings.

Q@A After the Screening

700PM-9PM

THE FANTASTICAL, THE SURREAL, THE BIZARRE

Mombomb, part 1

Director Patricia Beckmann Wells

United States, 5 min

Pez sees life through fairy tales while serial killers hunt her.Mombomb explores intergenerational trauma and memory through the eyes of the daughter of WWII immigrants


Crazy Crabs from Outer Space

Director Magdaleena Jakkila

Finland, 22 min

Pirjo, still stuck in her past, gets kidnapped by her pet crab Sebastian who turns out to be an alien. Sebastian wants to save her since the world is about to end at 10 o’clock today. However, Pirjo refuses to leave the planet without a memento of her beloved Ester and Sebastian won’t leave without Pirjo. The clock is ticking.

The Aesthete                                              

Directors Kaylan Jordan-Sen, Ian Sen

United Kingdom, 20 minutes

The Aesthete is a psychedelic horror film with a sting in its tail.
Horror elements aside, it deals with themes of dangerous art, drug use, manipulation, the nature of loneliness and alienation as experienced by the outsider, the things we will believe when truly desperate...and the possibility, perhaps, of transcendence.


Routine

Director Russ Emanuel

United States, 3 minutes

During a mysterious pandemic, Cassie’s quarantine life has turned into a routine, day in and day out. Nothing new seems to happen, until she realizes she’s out of coffee. And she’s determined to get her cup of joe, even if she must face the horrors of the outside world. Because “she’d kill for a cup of coffee.”

Leaf Man

Director Kevin Ackley

United States, 20 min

Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's odyssey through a world of organic existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life


Bay for Blood

Director Harry Waldman

United States, 18 minutes

James and Rob are hiding out in isolation to fix their mutual issues. As time progresses, the two reveal facts regarding their disturbing past relationship. An acquaintance of James', Jessica, finds herself in an uncomfortable position as she contemplates the best way to handle the situation.


The Double Room

Director Martin Del Carpio

United States, 15 min

Honor, both an artist and dreamer, finds himself in a dystopian reality of the corporate world. Having to face himself, his choice remains in whether to give in for the sake of survival or exist independently from what our culture has conditioned us to accept.

Circology                                                                    

Director Tero Peltoniemi

Finland 10 minutes

Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.

Feedback                                        

Director Xavier Coleman

United States, 15 minutes

Desperate for a respite from the city and his computer screen, NYC transplant, Evan, sets out on a camping getaway with encouragement from his AI therapist. He soon meets the campground’s renter, Sydney. With her guidance, the two decide to indulge in a rare strain of psychedelic mushrooms. What begins as an escapist meet-cute slowly devolves into a visceral nightmare, as the boundaries between the virtual and the physical begin to melt.

Player One Ready

Director Stefanie Clare Neal

Australia, 5 min

Q@A After the Screening

915PM- 1100PM

FEATURE PRESENTATION


Tie Die

Director Morgan Miller
United States, 80 minutes

When a series of mangled bodies begin appearing in the park, Ranger Jones (Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic Avenger) and a state trooper (Joe Bob Briggs, Shudder’s The Last Drive In) are baffled by the attacks.

Q@A After the Screening

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As part of The Psychedelic Film Festival, we are offering a free transpersonal workshop. We call it The Phoenix Process. This is a multimedia experience where you get to reconnect with the Witness and the Self

DOCUMENTARIES PRESENTATION

FEATURES

 

McKenna Academy

Begun in 2018 by visionary ethnopharmacologist, Dr. Dennis McKenna, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy explores modern and traditional practices, ideas, and technologies that foster the understanding of nature, consciousness, the cosmos, and their interweavings with humanity. Those who are interested please click on the link above.


 

HELP US SUPPORT OUR VETS

We have an ongoing fundraising drive to support our vets through our fundraising drive for the Wounded Warrior Project

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PAST PSYCHEDELIC FESTIVAL INTERVIEWS AND SHOWS

Live interview with Love Ghost- Sunday, June 13, 2021

Live interview with Johnnie Lee, vocalist for Miss Lava. Sunday, June 13,2021

Live interview with DAWN.w Friday, June 11, 2021

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Below are the answers to some questions for Acid Mothers Temple and Melting Paraiso UFO. Speaking are Makoto ( lead guitarist ), Hiroshi ( keyboardist) and Jyonson Tsu. This is an audio file.

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Catch our interview with Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. on PTSD this Tuesday, June 8 at 3 PM EDT, on YouTube.

Catch a live version of the hit “The Great Divide” monster hit from Miss Lava at the festival

Love Ghost will be performing their hit “Closure” live at our festival

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PSYCHEDELIC FESTIVAL GUEST: EDGAR PERA

Edgar Pera is considered by many "the most persistently individualistic Portuguese filmmaker". He has done more than one hundred films for cinema, TV, theatre dance, cine-concerts, galleries, the internet, and other media. In his movie Manual of Evasion, he invited three major counterculture American writers: Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker and asked them about the nature of time. In Paris he wins the Pasolini Award for his career, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal

PSYCHEDELIC FESTIVAL GUEST- DENNIS MCKENNA

My guest is noted author, ethnopharmacologist, and speaker Dennis McKenna. Some of the topics we will cover include: are we on the cusp of a psychedelic renaissance? do psychedelics and capitalism mix? what is new in psychedelic research and how can we find sanity of mind in the midst of this pan

PSYCHEDELIC FILM FESTIVAL GUEST: FREDERICK MARX

Frederick Marx is a producer, director, writer, and editor with 35 years in the film business, most of them as an independent filmmaker. Frederick is best known as the Producer/Editor of Hoop Dreams. Hoop Dreams played in hundreds of theatres nationwide after winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival. Richard is now working helping Veterans through his parent company Warrior Films.

Our Mission

The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival is an exploration of altered states of consciousness achieved thru psychedelics, film, music, art, virtual reality, and other mediums. We accept films short and features that cover non-ordinary reality experiences and altered states of consciousness. As they say. All roads lead to the One, so we are open to all kinds of psychedelic films and music
The films should come from all niches drama, surrealism, sci-fi, horror, experimental, fantastic, bizarre, shamanism, psychic archaeology, etc.
We are looking for cutting-edge documentaries on DMT. Ayahuasca, and other mind-altering substances. We are looking also for live music events bands, trance work, virtual reality installations that create the psychedelic experience and transpersonal reality.

Denis McKenna at the 2018 Psychedelic Film and Music Festival

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An event with Dennis and Robert at our festival 2018

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