PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th St, NYC
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $20, SATURDAY FESTIVAL PASS $60
EXPERIMENTAL AND AVANT-GARDE SHORTS
11 AM- 12:30 PM
Reverie
Director AJ Kosinska
United Kingdom. 4 min
An experimental short combining 8mm film with abstract animated images. An introspective approach in search of emotional connection and exploration. A dance choreography as a live theatre performance. Reverie is a film born from the process of discovery through making, a visual poem that unfolds as the artist creates
The Deep II
Director Gavin Hipkins
New Zealand, 9 min
Between sleeping and waking, a dreamscape charts fragile ecologies through the destructive forces of late capitalism. Found footage and wilderness travels overlap to evoke a hybrid condition of collective paralysis. This trance-like state navigates paradoxes of therapy and disturbances, isolation and connectivity.
Hypnagogia
Directors Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck
United States, 3 min
A drift into hypnogogia; the state between wakefulness and sleep.
Is it a world elsewhere? Sound visions and new seeing are encountered there. It is wispy and hard to grasp, subliminal and subterranean but continuous and quickly gone.
The Dream Machine
Director Pierre Ajavon
France, 4 min
Like a bridge between two worlds, the user of the Dream Machine can see complex color patterns appear, these patterns can become swirling shapes and symbols, until the user feels overwhelmed with colors.
Out of Dream V2.0
Director Jim Serbent
United States, 4min
Out of Dream was first realized in 1981 as a video art/music work that depicted a hallucinatory, nightmarish urban existence where the only escape is to return “back into dream.”
GodCocteauTheory
Directors: Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck
United States. 8 minutes
This is our time. “I tell myself it is their fault.” The observer becomes the observed, illumined by gas lamps or gas chambers? GodCocteauTheory asks: Does noise drive us to complicity? Are we driven to complicity by silence? An official blocks the view.
(T)here
Director Arthur Vincie
United States, 3 min
Experimental meditation on place - how we can be physically in one place but mentally in another
Equal
Director Tom Bessoir
United States, 4 min
EQUAL is a cinematic exploration of Richard Serra’s sculpture of the same name on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Wake
Director David English
United States, 7 min
What happens when we die? Does one part of us remain, while another part continues on? If that’s the case, where do those continuing parts go?
Urban Facade
Director Jim Lively
US, 3 min
A facade of calmness and at times sheer beauty thinly veil the chaos of urbanity just below the surface.
Digital Clones
Director Ross Turiano
United States, 5 min
An AI Avatar manifests in physical space and begins following a woman around. She eventually realizes this holographic shadow is a digital clone of herself. She also discovers there are multiple digital versions of herself stuck in cyberspace.
Oz
Director Adriana Medeiros Peliano
Brazil, 7min
A dreamlike and alicedelic reinterpretation inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), by L. Frank Baum. Yellow roads spiral into impossible pathways, dreams fold into themselves, and the journey home becomes a descent into shifting imaginary worlds.
Not Today
Submitter Michael Enright
United States, 4 min
First, we hear the water lapping on the stones of the riverbank. Music. Then the desert, the soldier, and the train home.
Stupid Stories and Squandered Love
Director Owen Coughlan
US, 6 min
An experimental film repurposing public domain movies, inspired by a childhood of Science Fiction
Kaleidoscope Dreams
Director Fritz Robinson
United States, 6 min
An experimental psychedelic film using filmmaker made kaleidoscopes with the jazz of Warren Jones.
Dynamics
Director Teo Baehler
Netherlands, 14 min
DYNAMICS (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, form and texture merge into a sensory experience
EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL AND BIZARRE
1230PM- 2 PM
The Limits of Math
Director John D Scott
United States, 9 min
Raccoon dreams of flying with a jetpack in outer space, but his sometimes depressive nature keeps him grounded and alone in real life.
Novem
Directors Peter Sandmark, Trace Nelson
Canada, 4 min
"novem" is the ninth in a series of abstract poetic films made by the BIG TOP collective of Trace Nelson and Peter Sandmark. The film uses archival and found 16 mm and 8 mm footage along with original 16 mm film
Step Into The Sun
Director Steve Schuster
United States, 5 min
Throwback to more relaxed times.
The Gravitation of the Lens
Director Paul Wallis
United Kingdom, 8 min
The Gravitation of the Lens is a short Experimental Film that documents a Filmmakers concept of their Art and their relationship with the camera. As the story evolves the perspective of the storyteller is revealed but whose perspective is it?
Debra Knox Band
Director Debra Knox
US, 20 min
Debra Knox is a San Francisco musician, film maker and actress. Her roots originate with the first Punk wave in the late 70's and she pioneered women who play and write their own music in The Bay Area scene. She has currently worked with members from The Mermen, The Jim Carrol Band and Joe Satriani. She continues to make films, write and play music with musicians from The Greg Kihn Band and The Rubinoos.
Let Me Show You the Beauty of Falling from Grace
Director Jimena Aguilar
France, 8 min
A journey through the artist's creative process from the mysterious genesis of inspiration to its very highs and its very lows, following the uplift of a demiurgic empowerment till its helpless demise.
Ignis et Glacies
Director Dan Sokolowski
Canada, 3 min
The Yukon River at Dawson City (Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in) on November 15, 2025. The ice has covered the river but not memories of summer fires. Filmed in 16mm, developed with Sunflower developer. Phytograms with Mint, parsley, Rosemary, Thyme and Spider plant.
Way Out West
Director Woody Jackson
United States, 14 min
In a barren desert, a lone traveler encounters shifting horizons, living shadows, and an elusive figure who seems to be part memory, part mirage. Inspired by the music of Woody Jackson, the film blurs the line between sound and image, creating an immersive meditation on solitude, myth, and the subconscious.
Arise Robot Minds (v1.3)
Director Michael Bohacz
United States, 6 min
Venecia Flúor - Caballos
Directors Jonathan Cremades, Venecia Flúor
Spain, 4 min
Horses and Dreams
We're Happy as Clams
Director Derek Jaskulski
United States, 3 min
A simple music animation video/. It charms young & old. Great reception in Asia.
PSYCHEDELIC NARRATIVE SHORTS
2PM-4PM
The Rainbow Temple
Director Gavin Plummer
Australia, 9 min
Hidden in the lush hinterland of Byron Bay, the Rainbow Temple is an extraordinary hand-built sanctuary, more than four decades in the making.
L'Océan est un Mythe
Directors Alexander Kaunas, Alex Gringo
Russian Federation, 13 min
Two men cross the desert in search of the ocean, only to discover that the true destination of their journey lies beyond geography — in a profound rethinking of movement, purpose, and the meaning of travel itself.
Awaken
Director Wenqi Zhou
Hong Kong, 8 min
The boy who suffers from mental disorders is constantly caught up in the memories of a party night by the seaside on the train to the exams......
That night, he accidentally ingested psychedelic experience and he mets a magical girl
Xibalba
Director Antonio Aleixo
Portugal, 14 min
António Aleixo built his identity around the need for recognition. But when his body failed and his insecurities forced him to stop, he entered what he calls a “Silent Winter”. A period in which everything that once seemed solid begins to collapse, leading him to descend into Xibalba, on a journey through Yucatán.
The Third Dream
Director Mohammadhossein Nikzad
Iran, 19 min
A dreamer resists interrogation by a relentless doctor determined to extract the truth about his dream by coercive use of psychoanalysis. As pressure deepens, memories are altered, erased, and rewritten at will. With no escape from the authority’s reach, he realizes the truth was never his to protect, and confession was inevitable from the beginning
How Do I Explain This?
Director Noel David Taylor
United States, 7 min
Struggling with his concept of reality, a man deserts his life in a fruitless attempt to gain perspective.
Skinnergy
Director Will Custer
United States , 10 min
Micah, a young and successful yet spiritually adrift tattoo artist, feels confined by the limitations of human flesh as his canvas. When mysterious forces intervene, he is drawn toward the creation of his magnum opus.
Nun of the Above
Director Tom Danon
United States, 6 min
Sister Elise carries heavy burdens, calloused knees, and a secret vice she hides in a small blue locket. Her quiet life in the parish of St. Stephen of the Shadows is interrupted when a crate arrives with no return address. Inside is a simple wooden chair. But when Elise sits to rest, she discovers that this particular piece of furniture has divorced itself from gravity.
Shroomery
Director Dane A Benko
United States, 14 min
A couple on the verge of breakup must team up to fight off a growth of malicious mushrooms that have overtaken their refrigerator.
Behind The Door
Director Leonardo Valenti
France, 5 min
Trapped inside a hotel room called the White Room, Leo is running late for his train when a simple problem becomes something far more disturbing.
M.R.I.
Director Mark Palgy
United States, 10 min
During a routine MRI prompted by a health scare, a father’s fear spirals into a claustrophobic nightmare - blurring the line between a medical exam and something far more sinister.
DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
ENTANGLED MINDS
4 PM- 5:30 PM
Entangled Minds
Director Julie Mallozzi
United States, 77 min
Confronted with the limitations of Western medicine, four people seek relief from physical and mental pain through treatments that induce altered states of consciousness. Grounded in deep meditation, their interconnected experiences with hypnosis, flotation therapy, music-induced trance, and sacred plant medicine bring the viewer on a transformative journey of healing from within.
SHORT PSYCHEDELIC DOCUMENTARIES
530M-700PM
DMTx: Mr. Enigma
Director Sebastian Coco
United States , 22 min
Travel with Daryck and Daniel on an exploratory inner journey of intravenous DMT in a Boulder, Colorado psychedelic therapy clinic. Watch Daryck traverse an internal, hypervivid realm and reveal deep inner truths as you learn about the world of DMTx.
Carl Ruck - Entheogen
Director Hugh Finnerty
United States, 28 min
In 1978, Dr. Carl Ruck risked his academic career to bring ancient truths to the modern day with his landmark publication, The Road to Eleusis, which put a mind-altering sacrament at the center of one of Ancient Greece’s most enigmatic mysteries.
The War Within
Director Maya Segal
United Kingdom, 22 min
US military veterans suffering from PTSD travel to Colombia to take part in an Indigenous ayahuasca ceremony, hoping the experience will help alleviate their ongoing trauma. Their personal journeys of healing unfold alongside cutting-edge scientific research exploring how psychedelic substances may transform the future of mental-health treatment.
MUSIC PERFORMANCES:
FORRM LIVE IN NYC 2025
7 PM- 8:15 PM
FORRM LIVE IN NYC
Director Firouz Farman-Farmaian
France. 70 min
Firouz Farman-Farmaian here documents his takeover of New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design’s auditorium on the evening of Dec 12 ’24, which resulted in a breakthrough multidisciplinary live artwork, immersing the audience in a performative experience, deploying his post-rock ensemble FORRM + engaging in creative visual dialogue with a neural network framework powered by NY based digital artstudio Interactive Items.
Director - Firouz Farman-Farmaian
PSYCH SCI-FI AND SUPERNATURAL SHORTS
815PM-930PM
King Satan - Light of Darkness
Director Seth Aleister de King Satan
Finland, 4 min
Where is heaven? What is hell? Light of Darkness is a stylized metal/rock music video that blurs the boundaries between music video and short film. The work is a symbolic and allegorical journey through a psychedelic dreamscape, echoing the visual and philosophical depth inspired by arthouse cinema
Love Spell. A Psychedelic Poem in Two Parts
Director Marcin Just
United Kingdom, 22 min
Adapting pagan rituals and beings into contemporary London, the film tells a story of a young woman who one day starts being stalked by someone who may or may not come from a world different than our own.
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Director Kyle McCabe
United States, 30 min
Kafka’s classic tale is artificially sweetened in this AI-rendered, modern adaptation of "The Metamorphosis." Presented through the eerie lens of machine-generated imagery, this experimental film embraces the uncanny valley aesthetic of AI to mirror the unsettling, dreamlike tone of Kafka’s storytelling.
Memorabilia
Director Roosa Vuokkola
Finland, 22 min
Two estranged sisters enter a virtual recreation of their childhood in an effort to find their missing mother. Upon entering the memories, the sisters will have mend their broken relationship while looking for their mother. In the world of memories the sisters face the truth and the strange creature lurking there.
PSYCHEDELIC FEATURE:
QUEEN OF THE REDWOOD MOUNTAINS
930PM-11PM
Queen of the Redwood Mountains
Director Nic Saunders
United Kingdom, 83 min
Four lifetimes. One love story.
As the choir finish and head out into the wintry night, an old man sits quietly amongst the angels. Recalling a promise he made many years ago, he finds himself remembering a life he isn’t even sure is his own. Little had he realized that a phone number scribbled in faded lipstick on the back of an old photograph would change his life forever.
"Queen of the Redwood Mountains" sadly marks the last film appearance of both Gavan O'Herlihy and Kenny Baker after long and distinguished film careers.
AFTER SCREENING PARTY
10 PM-3 AM
Ecstatic Bloom-A Psychedelic Bloom After Screening Party
Get ready to dive into a wild night with mind-bending psychedelic vibes and good energy. Join the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society at the after-screening party, which includes food, psychedelic bands, and cool people. This party is taking place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 15% off code is ECSTATIC26