THE PSYCHEDELIC FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
Opening Night
Friday , December 12, 2025
The Sonnet Theater
at
THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th St.
New York, New York, 10016
Update:
The Friday screening has been moved to 9pm
9PM-11PM
2 Day Pass $ 45
All Individual Film Blocks $20
FILM BLOCK
WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE
In C, Too
Directors Dean Winkler, John Sanborn
United States, 5 min
"In C, Too" illuminates how close our dreams are to a common reality. Through structured visual improvisational techniques, the work explores how humanity survives because of our imagination and desire to transcend. "In C, Too" is also an origin story, operating in renunciation to mortality, focused on life’s essentials – existence, exploration and how entropy ignites evolution
Stories of Transformation: Sam Juan
Director Stephen Apkon
US, 8 min
A veteran recalls her struggle with PTSD and healing thru Ayahuasca.
Psychedelic Shack #4 (Afrofuturism)
Director Karl Nussbaum
United States, 3 min
Psychedelic Shack #4 is a celebration of wild patterns and dazzling African wax print fabric. And it is a love letter to the historic and celebrated Vlisco fabric company
The Crooner
Director John Earling
United States, 17 min
The Crooner is a satirical and absurdist musical comedy following an eccentric college student who attempts to replicate the smooth persona of a mid-20th-century crooner to combat his raging anxiety and insecurities. In his journey of self-illusion, he'll find himself at odds with a gallery of college life's most exaggerated student tropes.
When the Sun Explodes
Directors Davis Diamond, Skyler Diamond
United States, 22 min
"When the Sun Explodes" is a 5-song EP and animated mini-series by Very Nice Person. The story starts in Malibu, California, when the sun suddenly explodes and takes the main characters, Davis & Skyler, on a quest to bring it back and restore balance on Earth. They travel through different dimensions, gaining powers and meeting guides to help them along the way
Trace
Director Olivier Kazuma
Japan, 16 min
A beach off the coast of Japan. A man awakens, then reunites with the woman he loves. But is it really a reunion? A unique cinematic experience: A reflection on time, life and the reality of things, the film consists of a single take entirely shot and played backwards.
Turkey Medicine
Director Joshua Mesnik
United States, 10 min
When offered a rare psychedelic turkey gravy, a troubled man seeking healing is propelled on a surreal journey to end his cycles of despair and discover his true turkey call.
The Metaphysical Odyssey of a Pizza Delivery Guy
Director Matías Pimstein
Chile, Spain, 24 min
Kidnapped by mistake by two masked strangers, a pizza delivery guy finds himself trapped in a bizarre journey that blurs the line between reality and fiction, facing surreal interrogations and a couple of identity crises, just for delivering the wrong pizza to the wrong place.
Hypnhadiqa
Director Chris Sagovac
United States, 5min
Hypnhadiqa is an experiment using imagery from hand woven rugs to represent hallucinogenic fantasmata encountered in the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. The kaleidoscopic sequence, in this transitional state of reception, is intended to unlock the hypnagogic cognitive state of the viewer.
Noise in Your Head
Director Anton Yurievich Kolmakov
Russian Federation, 17 min
Sergey turns to the Shum psychological help clinic to solve his internal self-esteem problem. Recently, his beloved cat died, and the young man has no one else to discuss it with. In the clinic, Sergey, as in the game, passes a multi-level bunker, filled with his diverse opponents, embodying Sergey's main fears. Each of them must be destroyed, improved and advanced.