THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th , NYC
Friday, October 20, 2023
All Movie Blocks $20
FREE POPCORN
5:00-7:00 PM
ENTER THE RABBIT HOLE
VOYAGE INTO THE SEA OF AWARENESS: UNEARTHING PEARLS, 2023
Director Yi-Hua Wang
Taiwan, 10 minutes
In various religious rituals and philosophical mindsets, the emphasis is often placed on "transformation." Within the realm of inner knowledge, such actions are referred to as "alchemy of consciousness."
PHANTASMAGORIA, 2023
Director Alexis Herrera
Colombia, 24 minutes
A lonely illusionist spends gray afternoons imagining Galatea, his missing assistant, and muse, and even feels her hypnotic, pale gaze stalking him as if patiently waiting for him to finish configuring his great act, an illusion that can make her appear again. For the illusionist, this has become an obsession that has taken away his sleep
VIRIDIAN HUE, 2022
Director Jonathan Rosado
United States, 75 min
Angelo Domingo, a gun-toting assassin on the verge of insanity, struggles to find new meaning in life. Disillusioned with the world around him, he begins to explore the underbelly of esoteric enlightenment. A decision to drive up the East Coast to the place of his birth leads to mysterious encounters, debauchery, and revelations from God along the way.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
700PM - 900PM
WELCOME TO THE PSYCHODROME
JENNY’S ABSINTHE 2023
Director Gregor Gašperin
Slovenia, 12min
A catfishing troll finds himself on the wrong side of the hook
LUX CHROMA, 2022
Director Kwokyong Ng
Malaysia, 11 min
Zac is not just an ordinary digital colorist who color grades videos, he is able to see human's aura and "color grade" their aura to heal them.
HALLOWSTIDE, 2018
Director Steve Socki
United States, 4 min
Dreamy, haunting forms transform, then ascend into a new spiritual world.
RUINENLUST, 2023
Director Peixian Wu
United States, 7 minutes
Through “Ruinenlust”, my realization of this cycle of inner turmoil towards self-discovery and growth steps to the forth, reflecting the complexities of my inner world and the intersection of the philosophy and spirituality navigating it.
THE OTHER MIND: AI AND PSYCHEDELICS
Director Gregory David Bart, 2023
United States, 15 min
A radical and illuminating approach to AI: what if real answers to shaping an AI future can be found in psychedelics and our shamanic heritage?
RED YELLOW, BLUE, 2023
Director Julia E. Cooke
United States,18 min
A girl gets haunted by her own demons as we follow her through her colorful, surreal, bizarre descent into insanity.
MOTHERSHIP, 2022
Director Joe Burrascano
United States, 4 min
An intergalactic god wakes up on a barren planet with no memory of who he is or where he comes from.
WIZINSKI’S AC SERVICE, 2023
Director Michael Andrew Swastek
United States, 9 min
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An eccentric man's prank leads to eternal torture.
INISIYA, 2023
Director İpek Elif Aytar
Turkey, 3min
In a psychedelic universe, a jade stone from space crashes into a planet where the long-legged blue goat lives. The crash creates enormous cracks in the ground, and the goat and the stone fall into the void of darkness through the cracks.
DYING ON AMANITAS, 2023
Director Charlie Goulet
United States, 15 minute
Experiencing death by a gunshot, while on the Amanita Muscaria mushroom.
BLACK No1, 2022
Director Logan Fry
United States. 2 min
"Black No. 1" is one film in a series of conceptual, minimalist films. These films seek to do for film what Agnes Martin and Ad Reinhardt did for painting, in such works as "White Stone" (1964) "Ultimate Painting" (1963); and what John Cage did for music in 4'33".
LAWLA, 2022
Director Guillaume Simonin
Belgium, 5 minute
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
Jean Cocteau.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
9 pm-1030 pm
FEATURE PRESENTATION
JIMMY ALFREDO, 2021
Director Tyler AM
United States, 77 min
A cynical introvert joins a handsome vagabond on an LSD-fueled odyssey to, allegedly, meet the devil.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
10:30 pm- 12
FEATURE PRESENTATION
ALONE TOGETHER, 2023
Director William Kresch
United States, 94 min
After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and emotionally abused woman and her volatile boyfriend are forced to face the vengeful spirit that haunts it—and each other.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.