THE PSYCHEDELIC FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Producers Theater and Club
358 West 44th St
New York City
Saturday All Day Pass is $45.
Weekend All-Day Pass is $65
4- Day Livestream and Live Festival Pass is $75
All Film Blocks are $17
SATURDAY, DEC 11
10:00- 10:30 AM
Meditation -Free
10:30 AM -11:AM
Tea and Biscuits at the Bar Free
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
FEATURE PRESENTATION
BLOCK 1
All Film Blocks are $17
5000 SPACE ALIENS, 2021
East Coast Premiere
Director- Scott Bateman
US, 84 min
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
All Film Blocks are $17
AHO, 2021
Directors H.C. Guida, Mark Kohl
US, 13 min
A curious young man arrives at his first ayahuasca ceremony, in search of a spiritual transformation. It does not go as planned.
After "Let's Make A Sandwich" by Pat O'Neill, 2020
Director William Thinnes
US, 2 minutes
A scramble of motion-picture filmstock and rotating color filters to create a visual and psychedelic experience. Optically printed filmstock onto filmstock, is similar to Pat O'Neill's "Let's Make A Sandwich".
NOISE, 2021
Director Marcelo Mayen
US, 6 min
A short film about America's obsession with novelty.
BACH IS BLUE, 2021
Director Jasmin Morrison
UK, 1 min
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, 2021
Director Jerry Toth
Ecuador, 11 min
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, 2021
Director Roderick Henry
US, 4 min
Newbie ate a little too much o' the green..
WEED ART PROCESS, 2019
Director Serge Goldwicht
Belgium, 1 min
This is the story of a magic seed. Through pure art, the seed frees the power of imagination.
FLOATING WOMAN, 2021
Directors Laura Newman, Sister Leona
US, 9 min
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, 2021
Director Kasper Quintanilla
Norway, 7 min
After recently finding herself in the afterlife, a young woman and her new companion freely move through time and space while being invisible. But this sense of freedom is challenged by the fact that they’re not able to touch each other
ONE MILLION YEARS
Director Mike Enright, 2017
US, 4 minutes
Dream logic fuels an exploration of liquor, tentacles, and family.
THE LONG STRANGE TRIP BACKYARD
Director Coby Rich
US, 9 min
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, 2021- Song
Directors/Artists: Banjii & Mayuri
US, 6 min
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, 2021
Director Matt Check
US, 1 min
“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
All Film Blocks are $17
YOUR PERSPECTIVE, 2021
Director Ben Vokes
UK, 4 min
Reflections on life and death
MEN IN WHITE, 2021
Director Richie Harrington
US, 25 min
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, 2020
Director Joanna Alicja Stotko
Germany, 7 min
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, 2021
Director Srisha Chakraborti
India, 3 min
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, 2021
Director Richard Pell
US, 9 min
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, 2021
Director Justin Tyner
US, 8 min
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,2021
Director Buddy Love
US, 14 min
A ranch hand abuses a substance that allows him to create a reality where his brother is still alive.
7 PRAYERS, 2020
Director Todd Carter
US, 8 min
A hyper-real musical
ENCHANTMENT UNDER THE WAVES, 2021
Director Frank A. DiMauro
US, 9 min
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, 2021
Director Charlie V. Rose
UK, 15 min
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, 2018
Director Chris Kotsovos
US, 9 min
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, 2021
Directed and Composed by House of Weirdos
US, 5 min
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:
All Film Blocks are $17
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE AND REYNOLS- LIVE AND BEYOND, 2019
North American Premiere
Director Alejandro Maly
Argentina, 85 min
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 5
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION:
All Film Blocks are $17
THE SONG THAT CALLS YOU HOME, 2020 EAST COAST PREMIERE
Directors: Luis Robledo, Vanni Mangoni
Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, Peru, United States, 73 min.
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
All Film Blocks are $17
THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, 2021
Director and Artist- Matt Dahl
US, 4 min
Upbeat dream pop/electronica dance music married to a quirky, animated video.
TRANSLOVE AIRWAVES-Episode 3- "NOBODY GETS FAT EATING MUSIC", 2021
Director - Matt Levin
US, 26 min
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 ofTranslove Airwaves Filmed at Liverpool Psych Fest in 2016 and in Washington, DC in 2021.
THE DARK FOREST, 2021
Director Martin Del Carpio
US,10 min
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, 2021
Director Luigi Rizzo
UK, 5 min
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 aka “ Dissolution”, 2021
Director Luis Solarat
US, Peru, 30 min
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, 2020
Director Adam Holoubek
US, 13 min
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 עֵץהַמּוֹלָד, 2021
Director Michael Ben Abu
Israel, 3 minutes
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, 2021
Directors Mike Caravella, Joe di Gennaro
US, 9 min
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
All Film Blocks are $17
WONDERLAND RECOIL, 2021
WORLD PREMIERE
Director Shaun Rana
Denmark, 93 min
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.
Trailer for Wonderland Recoil
10:30 PM -11:20 PM
BLOCK 8
DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
All Film Blocks are $17
WE ARE THE NEW CHIMERAS, 2020 Documentary
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Director Mathias Averty
France, 50 min
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.