Movies: Psychedelic

Structural study of a tree. Light, water and air coax it out of the soil in a manner foregrounding time’s relativity to different forms of life on Earth. Made the day my brother got his fork-lift license....

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this hallucinogenic space adventure presented entirely through the use of close-up photography....

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex....

A intense feeling of euphoria, no risks, no feeling hungover tomorrow, no consequences. Experimental super drug ‘Dream State’ is nearly ready for human trials. Seeing an opportunity to shake her lifelong ‘good-girl’ image, Rob, contacts a local drug...

A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No. 2....

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

A "hero" steps out for work on a rainy Monday with a red umbrella, unaware he's the star of a cosmic show. Rain falls, thoughts swirl, and reality bends. Is this just another day, or the beginning of something out of normalcy?...

Retelling of the classic children's tale from a 1960s psychedelic viewpoint....

Two friends battle boredom with the power of their bong and marijuana, but failed to consider the perils of smoking on the couch....

Join Lucy as she embarks on a spiritual journey to Mars in this psychedelic short film full of music and mischief....

The film, set almost entirely in New York, tells of the life of some young people of the late Sixties: of the use they make of various drugs, including the terrible LSD, of their sex life and their freedom of costume and thought....

A desperate hypnotist uses a young woman to unknowingly perform crimes, leaving her with strained relationships and fragmented memories....

In 1972, a Hollywood producer's swinging party takes a strange turn when an uninvited guest comes for more than sex and drugs....

Hippie Dippy Julien's doped up antics have gone too far. His moonshine glugging hick fam are sick of his silly shit and want his ass out, leaving poor little Julien lost, stoned and lonely. Until Mama Casserole sets her beady eyes on him. Take a tri...

A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley....

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen....

An astronaut is detached from his space station, taken into an infinite drift throughout the universe. Freed from time and space, DRIFTER is confronted with the void. He takes a dive into the unknown, in search of the ultimate freedom....

A boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become indistinguishable. Tanaami shot a boxing match on a Motordrive camera, made two thousand offset prin...

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area....

Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love....