THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th, NYC
Saturday, October 21, 2023
FREE POPCORN
All Screening Blocks $20
Full Day Film Festival Pass $35
10:30 am -12 Noon
DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
THE BYTES DREAMS ARE MADE OF, 2023
Director Alessandro Amaducci
Italy, 67 min
The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
12 00 pm -130 pm
FREE TRANSPERSONAL WORKSHOP
THE PHOENIX PROCESS
A Workshop
As part of The Psychedelic Film Festival, we are offering a process for accessing your higher self. We call it The Phoenix Process.
1:30 pm- 3:00 pm
FEATURE PRESENTATION
THE CHILD OF PLOMO, 2021
Director Daniel Dávila
Chile, 67 min
Waking from a mysterious dream, Mateo drags Scarlett, his babysitter, away from the Andean ski resort where he’s spending the holidays with his parents off in search of an unknown place. His quest becomes Scarlett’s as the call of the mountains intensifies. Pristinely poetic, the film illustrates a major Inca ritual, bridging past and present
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
300 pm-500 pm
OUR VANISHING WORLD
2 DOCUMENTARIES
ONANYA, 2022
Director Paris Tume
United Kingdom, 63 minutes
In the verdant, lush jungles of the Amazon, a tribe of indigenous people has lived in harmony with their surroundings for millennia. The Shipibo tribe has learned the secrets of the earth, honing their knowledge to transform the native flora into powerful medicines that can cure any sickness. But their peaceful existence is threatened.
BIOGNOSIS, 2022
Director Greg Hemmings
Canada, 32 min
The McKenna Academy’s BioGnosis project aims to renovate and digitize an immensely important collection of 150,000 biological specimens currently housed at the Herbarium of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. The herbarium includes vital knowledge on how the indigenous people use the plants for healing.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
500-7 00 PM
PSYCHEDELIC AND SUPERNATURAL SHORTS
CREMANTIQUE, 2022
Director Remy Powell Lamont
United Kingdom, 5 min
"Cremantique" is a supernatural short film exploring isolation, sleep paralysis, and that haunting carnival of late-night anxious thoughts, ringing like an operatic chorus line of evil puppets in your head.
DEMENTIA 29, 2022
Director Ben Manhanke
United States, 24 min
A young woman uses her psychic powers to make a living.
ACID KING- BEYOND VISION, 2023
Director Dalan McNabola
United States, 8 min
Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 2001, Carl Sagan, and LSD, the video asks what would happen if instead of the Voyager Golden Record, the new Acid King record was sent off into space?
HEARING VOICES, 2022
Director Debra Knox
United States, 22 min
A schizophrenic woman battles the destructive voices that seek to dominate her amidst seeking love and acceptance in a crumbling inner world.
SHADOW ON THE TERRACE, 2023
Director Bo-wei Ling
Taiwan, 19 min
Qi has a fear of marriage. When he and his girlfriend Qian move into an old house with a large terrace. Qian suddenly has gone, and there seems to be something wrong here
TEARS OF THE WITCH, 2022
Director Poul Erik Madsen
Denmark, 22 min
This story takes place in three different time periods. Slowly we discover the horrifying truth that emerges, as everyone unknowingly steps into the witch's trap.
Flesheater, 2023
Director Sean Bayles
United States, 4 min
When a science experiment goes horrifically wrong, Pat & Mac are called in to fix it with the power of rock music.
ENTER THE ROOM, 2022
Director Harry Waldman
United States, 15 min
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers' current situations
WAY OF THE SEASON, 2023
Director Steven Palassis
United States, 5 min
A rumination on the day's convoluted, technology-driven media and how it's influencing us to become as "personable" as the technology itself.
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
700pm -930pm
PSYCHEDELIC DIMENSIONS
MATTHEW MODINE’S I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE, 2023
Director Matthew Modine
United States, 7 min
Matthew Modine’s new short film, I AM WHAT YOU IMAGINE, is a sensual exploration of the unexplainable. Featuring the voice talents of Ruby Modine and long-time Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali (in his final performance), the short uses sound, music, and expressionistic imagery to take viewers on a journey of the heart and mind.
FOLLOWUP, 2022
Directors Al Cerulo, Jude Traxler
United States. 9 min
"Followup" begins a series of avant-garde works by Echo Artifact for our 4th studio album. Beginning with original, abstract film footage, we created elaborate videos without sound; and visual narratives without specificity.
WILDFIRES, 2023
Director Peter Hriso
United States, 2 min
There are no ulterior motives or hidden messages in my work.
ENFIELD IS A PRAYER- The Mystery of the Palm Leaf
Director Pavi Lustig
Austria, 9 min
Short film about Enfield Is Prayer, a motorcycle touring outfit based in India, Germany, Greece and Mexico. This film is the venture's manifesto, packaged in a docu-ad format with stunning aerial and 360 degree camera footage of India and a kicking soundtrack.
SLOWDIVE, Pure Joy
Director Matt Levin
United States, 28 min
Episode 4 of my psychedelic music, film, art, and travel series, Translove Airwaves (TLA) features legendary UK shoegaze band, Slowdive. The show was filmed in Birmingham in the UK in September 2017 at a music festival called Beyond The Tracks. This episode is unique in that it was all shot in one day, and combines live footage of the band, a backstage interview with Slowdive singer, Rachel Goswell, and drummer Simon Scott, along with incredible psychedelic animation.
POCKETKNIFE, 2022
Director Domenico Morreale
Italy, 4 min
"Pocketknife" is the music video for Polychron Plus' song featuring Anna Domino, taken from the album Polychron+'s "She's Always Been There"
NESHAMAH, 2016
Director Joao Pedro Oliveira
Portugal, 12 min
Neshamah is a Hebrew word that means “breath”. This piece was inspired by the following biblical text: “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2:7)
BENTO BANANA, 2023
Director Ari Grabb
US, 10 min
An animated web series about a talking artificially intelligent banana and his eggplant sidekick existing within a procedurally generated anime that appears to be mysteriously glitching.
SHAMANS, 2018
Director Santiago Echeverry
United States, 4 min
Shamans is the portrait of 4 artists living and working in London, UK.
JOURNEY, 2023
Director Eliza Mitnick
United States, 25 min
Jimmy Nguyen is a psychedelic healing guide who leads clients on ceremonial trips using this innovative new form of therapy. Currently in medical trials at leading institutions across the country, the mushroom allows people to confront their truest nature and their deepest demons.
LA ISLA, 2020
Director Totemworlds (Katan R Lamarque)
Mexico, 4 min
LA ISLA is an art film that invites you to explore a mystical place: a sacred dimension beyond time and space that celebrates Gods, Goddesses, and religious beliefs around the globe
EXIT INTO THE MASQUERADIUM, 2022
Director Larry Sanborn
United States, 4 min
My focus is to create 360/VR healing visual/meditations that allow the mind/body to heal itself by changing the frequency of brain waves, which affect every cell in your body, shifting the vibration from dis-eased to being at ease.
YOU, US & I, 2022
Director Diego Rico
United States, 12 min
In an uncertain world, a mother tries to convince her daughter to come outside and return to normalcy.
PHOSPHORUS, 2022
Directors Martin Del Carpio, Bill Stratford
United States, 4 min
In Hindi, phosphorus is the planet (usually Venus) that appears in the sky before sunrise, as a rare sight.
KOO LA LAY LA, 2022
Director Eric George Ekstrand
United States, 3 min
Psychedelic Song by Eric Ekstrand
Q&A with Filmmakers after the screenings.
930PM-1045 PM
FEATURE PRESENTATION
LORI AND THE SIX SIX SIXTIES, 2023
Director Grant McPhee
United Kingdom, 70 min
This is a fantasy Pop-Art Fairytale starring Lori Stott (BBC’s The Demon Headmaster’ and Ashley Sutherland, It is the tale of a shy young woman seeking fame in the dark work of the 1960s folk-music underground. Lori’s journey to stardom takes her on a journey far beyond the familiar music world she is trying to break into and instead breaks out to a forgotten past of rural landscapes, magic, myth, dead Gods, and mysterious fallen angels”.
FEATURE PRESENTATION
1045PM- 1140PM
NIRVANA, 2023
Director Nikolas Keskilammi
Finland, 48 min
A trio sets out for a drug-filled quest during New Year's Eve when one of them spirals into a terrifying drug trip and overdoses after which it is up to his two friends to save his life and bring him back from madness