THE PSYCHEDELIC FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Producers Theater and Club
358 West 44th St
New York City
SATURDAY PROGRAM, DECEMBER 11, 2021
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
FEATURE PRESENTATION
BLOCK 1
All Film Blocks are $17
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5000 SPACE ALIENS, Experimental and animated music video
Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this fun and totally bonkers animated film that uses computer-manipulated found footage and collage.
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
BLOCK 2
PSYCHEDELIC DIMENSIONS
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AHO, Comedy
A curious young man arrives at his first ayahuasca ceremony, in search of a spiritual transformation. It does not go as planned.
NOISE, 2021
A short film about America's obsession with novelty.
BACH IS BLUE, 2021
Kate can’t speak or move. She’s trapped in her body. And, yet, she exists in a liminal space full of color, one where Bach is blue.
KISSING GAIA , Documentary
A short experimental film about the wild harvest and ecstatic consumption of a sacred psychedelic cactus. Shot in Ecuador under the influence of San Pedro.
OVERDOWD A comedy
Newbie ate a little too much o' the green..
WEED ART PROCESS, Documentary
This is the story of a magic seed. Through pure art, the seed frees the power of imagination.
FLOATING WOMAN, Liberation and freedom
A group of friends run away to the woods, creating psychedelic art and exploring the power of orgasm to heal and free her mind.
WE ARE NOT HERE, Psychological
An afterlife encounter between two women
THE LONG STRANGE TRIP BACKYARD, Comedy
When a down on his luck stoner gets a hold of some magic mushrooms he experiences a wild trip he'll never forget.
COPPER LINES, Folky Song
Banjii & Mayuri is a band that released their debut single “Copper Lines” from their upcoming album “Uncommon Love Story” on August 14th, 2020 on all streaming platforms.
Mammoth: Meditation, Animation
“Mammoth: Meditation” is a 3D animated short that dives inside the mind of Mammoth the Sunflower struggling to keep his thoughts under control while meditating.
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
BLOCK 3
JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF YOUR MIND
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YOUR PERSPECTIVE- 8mm footage
Reflections on life and death
MEN IN WHITE,“Pulp Fiction” in the afterlife- Comedy and drama
When Mikey, a dimwitted drug dealer with a heart of gold, overdoses and dies, The Men in White show up to take him to the afterlife. However, they might have something more sinister up their sleeves.
ENDLESS WHITE SPACE, A trippy OBE photography
A narrative on the desire to break free from the construction of the „I“, after experiencing the own presence out of the body. An extended quarantine project, with soundscapes heavily influenced by the album Time Machines by Coil.
CANVAS, A Beautiful Animation
A figure comes out of blank space and undergoes changes, as the changes start to grow more rapid, more violent, and more erratic, the figure slashes its belly, revealing its final form. In the end, the “Canvas of Life” will never be as empty as it starts out.
CODEX ENTROPIA, An Engrossing Mockumentary on a Futuristic World
An ancient civilization develops complex computing technologies using only well-trained animals. Told through a psychedelic found-footage slideshow sourced entirely from 100+-year-old stereoscopic photographs. Seen here in its intended anaglyph format. 3d glasses
WE ARE MORE THAN WE KNOW, Dance
The power of an individual’s creative freedom is explored in a hidden surreal world where creative energy is brought to life using stained glass visuals, poetry, and dance
KINGDOM COME, Drama
A ranch hand abuses a substance that allows him to create a reality where his brother is still alive.
7 PRAYERS A hyperreal musical
ENCHANTMENT UNDER THE WAVES , Documentary
Undersea footage of exotic marine life shot in the Indian and the Pacific Ocean, as well as rare footage of a Komoda Dragon swimming in the ocean, set to electronic music by Frank DiMauro aka Frank Tomorrow.
Iain Banks Appreciation Society, A Whimsical Story of Wonderlust
Logan sets out into the wild, from a remote Scottish afterparty, in search of the kind of adventure that has been missing from his life since he moved to London.
NORTH BY FREAKING WEST, Surrealistic homage to Hitchcock
In collaboration with iconoclastic composer Ron Jones (Star Trek TNG and Family Guy), a loving tribute to films of Alfred Hitchcock and the musical genius of Bernard Herman.
Big Fat Spider Lady - Music Video, Rock and Roll Music Video
In this music video by House of Weirdos, we are witness to the bizarre story of three brothers from The Bronx, the youngest suspecting some strange, nocturnal visits by the song's namesake.
4:00 PM - 5:25 PM
BLOCK 4
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION:
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE AND REYNOLS, Documentary
Live and Beyond is a rockumentary about these two great underground and psychedelic bands together, Acid Mothers Temple and Reynols. They met in 2017 in Buenos Aires and played in a live concert, recorded an album, and made a magical jam. Interviews and live performances of the bands.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
BLOCK A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION:
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THE SONG THAT CALLS YOU HOME, Documentary
This is a personal, scientific, and mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo with a focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties and risks -along with the wondrous world of the Shipibo people and Song.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
BLOCK 6
THE PSYCHEDELIC MIRROR
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THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, Music Video
Upbeat dream pop/electronica dance music married to a quirky, animated video.
TRANSLOVE AIRWAVES "NOBODY GETS FAT EATING MUSIC", Documentary
Join artist, author, space-rock legend, and appreciator of Icelandic “window weather”, Will Carruthers, via a certain psychedelic painting he did for our host, Matt Levin, as he takes us on a celestial trip through his career in music, painting, and writing. Will sat for an interview with music critic Dom Gourlay at the 2016 Liverpool Psych Festival and shares some of his recollections and wild stories of working with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and more. Combining animation, the music Will worked on, and some psychedelic fairy dust sprinkled on top, this is indeed a very special presentation of Translove Airwaves Filmed at Liverpool Psych Fest in 2016 and in Washington, DC in 2021.
THE DARK FOREST, Introspective revelation
The Dark Forest’ transmutes its author’s innermost life into an admirable piece of introspective cinema. Opening with Dante Alighieri’s quote which inspired the title, it takes the viewer on a short, yet transcendent journey through the bushes of symbols and trees of thoughts, in the company of a lovely (and cunning?) forest spirit
THE INVISIBLE MIRROR, Dance
At night while something has happened in a house of an old lady, a young girl dresses to go to a party. Through the dance and the music, suddenly youth and age merge together in an ephemeral and dynamic moment, ultimately connected.
PSYCHEDELIC PANDEMIC, Documentary
A filmmaker from London leaves his career behind and travels to the Amazon to fulfill a life-long dream and experience ayahuasca but on his way to Perú COVID-19 changes everything leaving him trapped in the jungle while the world as we knew it disappears.
LENS-MUSE,
A poet walks through Times Square. experiencing the expanse of his waking wor(l)d and the sacred space of his subconscious muse, expressed in four realms.
TreeBirth- A Visual Meditation
An olive tree shatters into pieces, falls apart, and comes together again. The tree implodes, deconstructs into fragments and particles flying into an eerie space.
ASTRAL PLAIN DRIFTER, Comedy
An existential journey to find motivation for his languishing band sent Drifter on a new course. Sometime before yesterday… or after tomorrow, he receives the beacon that his Ex-Girlfriend is in peril. Prepared by his trusty Sidekick, he ventures off into the yonder, where his Antagonist awaits…
9:00 PM- 10:30 PM
BLOCK 7
FEATURE PRESENTATION
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WONDERLAND RECOIL, A Psychedelic take on Alice in Wonderland
In a dystopian future, it’s possible to print custom-made drugs and psychedelics with any desired effect, from your computer in your home. Alice is stuck in her depressed life and desperately looking for an escape. She finds a brand new psychedelic drug: Nirvana - designed to warp your reality. Alice takes the drug and arrives in Wonderland as her alter ego Ecila. What at first seems like a euphoric experience of happiness, slowly turns into an inescapable nightmare, forcing Ecila to face her demons
10:30 PM -11:20 PM
BLOCK 8
DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
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WE ARE THE NEW CHIMERAS, Documentary
To celebrate the coming summer and say goodbye to the dark days of winter, they leave their cities in droves to worship forgotten gods in the heart of Brittany. This documentary recounts the last edition of the "Feux de Beltane" (Beltane Fire Festival), a secret celebration meant for Black Metal fans.
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SUNDAY PROGRAM, DECEMBER 12, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
BLOCK 1
THE INNER JOURNEY
FREE WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANOTHER FILM BLOCK
THE THEATER OF THE MIND, A Cinematic Journey Through Your Mind
Join Dan Abella, author of Theater of the Mind, as he explores through the cinematic journey the interconnectivity between the outer world and our inner world. Dan draws parallels from films, art, music, news to demonstrate we all have a powerful psychedelic feature in our mind that we can open up at will. Dan will have his latest book The Theater of the Mind available for purchase.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
BLOCK 2
SHORTS PRESENTATION- ALTERED STATES
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2020 , Experimental
A film for 2020, a year to remember. 2020 explores different colors to create a flicker film. Music by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
HARDCORE HALBERT, Comedy
Halbert is a sad young lad trying to tend to an ailing ficus plant. Despite his vigorous watering regimen, the ficus will not grow. One day, heavy metal music drifts over his neighbor’s fence, causing a new leaf to sprout from the sapling. Halbert quickly picks up the music as a new passion. His mother, however, wants him to stop wasting time on his ever-rotating wheel of hobbies, and to focus on his future.
AGING ROCKERS, Music Video
Aging Rockers V2.0, a darkly humorous tribute to aging rockers everywhere and to those musical luminaries who have left us.
PRISM, Experimental
“Prism” acts as the container for the multimedia, abstract, experimental experience. In this film we will go on a journey through the full spectrum of light and color. The themes of the landscapes portraying these colors are inspired by the 7 chakra points
GLF-LSD, Documentary
GLF LSD is narrated by Alan Wakeman, an early member of the Gay Liberation Front. Alan discussed the connection between the GLF and LSD as an essential part of becoming... We hear Alan describe his experiences with LSD - we learn about his personal realizations and his discoveries. Visually the film is comprised of multiple super-impositions, layered 16mm material, and physical, handmade special effects.
JALA SUITE, Abstract, Experimental
The “visual music” collaborations of Jing Wang and Harvey Goldman attempt to produce a synesthesia-like experience. The audience is encouraged to “see” the music and “hear” the visuals. The imagery and audio components are constructed without hierarchy, a true melding of sound and image.
KAROSHI, Surrealism, Comedy
In the world of Karoshi, we follow the hard and dull life of a young car mechanic named Lucas Rêves. He has given up on all of his ambitions until one day a mysterious figure arrives in his garage. After this figure hits a woman in front of his garage with his car, Lucas gets the chance to make his dream of becoming a surgeon into reality.
COALESCENCE, 2021
Director João Pedro Oliveira
Portugal, 11min
Coalescence is the process of joining or merging elements to form one mass or whole. In this visual music piece, both visual materials and music join and separate themselves in distinct units, forming shapes and sounds that are the combination of elements joined together
DAZZLE SHIPS, Experimental, Satire, Surrealistic
In Dazzle Ships, the performers and their desire to feel loved are set in an internal feedback loop where the weapon of psychic disturbance becomes a tool of self-awakening. The result is a genuine reflection of the fewest who are exposed. The magic of the obscure and ephemeral.
CRONICO, Music Video / Comedy
During the 2020 worldwide quarantine, a young hip-hop singer finds solace in marihuana. Crónico is a collage animation music video that explores the daily rituals of a man during these uncertain pandemic times, combined with fantasies that help him escape reality and even reimagine his own history
FLORABUNDUS, Experimental
FLORABUNDAS is an experimental digital video we made using images of our sculptures and is part of a new series of short experimental digital videos called DREAM STORM
DUSTRIA, Music Video / Experimental
Dustria is a candy-colored, slightly sinister, otherworldly meditation on industrial wasteland atmospheric decay. Presented in the form of a hypnotic music video for Boston electronic synth duo The Square Root of Negative Two.
IXION #2 "The EyeCandy™" , Experimental
Joey Bargsten's fake stereoscopic film for his VR project "The Other: A Maze," IXION #2 "The EyeCandy™" features identical side-by-side videos of abstract imagery produced by his own motion-reactive visual synthesis based on the legendary Rutt-Etra analog video synthesizer of the 1970s.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
BLOCK 3
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION:
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DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN, Documentary
Descending the Mountain’ takes us on a journey of mystical revelations, experienced through meditation and psilocybin. To understand how psychedelics reveal the nature of consciousness, psychiatrist Franz and Zen master Vanja guide experienced meditators – who have never used psychedelics before – through a ground-breaking scientific experiment on the majestic Swiss Mount Rigi.
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
BLOCK 4
SHORTS PROGRAM- PSYCHEDELIC-EERIE- UNCANNY
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GENGHIS TRON, Dream Weapon. Music Video
This is the official video for the song Dream Weapon by the band Genghis Tron. Someone finds their lucky potential ladder, constructs it, and says goodbye to this place
TRUTH ABOUT HASTINGS, Psychological, Surrealist
Strange things are afoot in Hastings, Nebraska
ONE SOUL FOR TWO, Psychological, Surrealist, Kafkaesque
The young sculptor Danila is accused of a terrible crime. An attempt to understand what has happened and look inside your subconscious leads to mysterious events that turn upside down the young man’s worldview along with his life itself.
SOLO PUNK, Psychedelic Horror, High Strangeness
A woman isolated in a bunker struggles to decipher reality from her mind's eye
MOTHER'S DAY, Psychedelic, Retro, High Strangeness
California, 1968. Jane has a perfect life. A loving husband, a darling daughter, and -hands down-the grooviest home in the neighborhood. But all that is no match for the painful memories of Jane's childhood as they emerge on the eve of Mother's Day.
ECHO ULTRA, Psychedelic Sci-Fi
A scientist guides a lost pilot through a dangerous and mind-bending ordeal.
THE 12TH MAN, Kafkaesque, Uncanny
As the weather conditions become increasingly unexplainable, Donnie is stuck at home after losing his job. He gets into a banter with his only friend "SAM" the AI from his phone. The banter takes a different and unexpected turn when heavy lightning strikes.
THE UNORTHODOX SERIES, Psychological Horror/ Weirdness
“The Unorthodox Series” are one-of-a-kind, chilling yet symbolic storytelling adventures captured from the first-person point of view, in order to reveal all that glitters!
THE WARNING, High Strangeness
The year 2020. A woman receives a message from the Virgin Mary.
IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, Music Video
What will happen to us? What happens when humanity becomes extinct? A new art video by artist Marielle Tepper shows us how the world may look before and after its end.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
BLOCK 5
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
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UNDERNEATH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TERROR, Psychological Horror
UNDERNEATH is an anthology in the vein of CREEPSHOW and is comprised of five chapters, an epilogue, and several mind-bending vignettes that are all bound together by something unnatural and sinister.
7:30 PM - 9:15 PM
BLOCK 6
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
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CORPSE, Psychedelic Horror
An experimental film based on the classic weird fiction anthology "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, CORPSE uses a fractured narrative of surreal flashbacks and dream sequences to tell the story of a C-list reality TV star, her best friend, and a group of young entrepreneurs who encounter a forbidden book which induces madness in those who read it.
9:20 PM - 11:00 PM
BLOCK 7
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
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THE BERLIN BRIDE, High Strangeness
A near-silent tale inspired by the silent film era, the writings of Poe, and the German fantasist E.T.A Hoffmann. Two oddball Berliners discover individually the parts of a department store mannequin in a city park occupied by nude sunbathers. Under the mannequin's spell, and with a harrowing consequence, the men come to terms with their disjointed mate. A cautionary tale of unrequited sexuality and blurring gender identity. A surreal vision of sexual evolution and misguided passion.