OCTOBER 22, 2023
SUNDAY ONLINE EDITION
11 AM-6 PM
11 am- 1:30 pm
ENTER THE RABBIT HOLE
VOYAGE INTO THE SEA OF AWARENESS: UNEARTHING PEARLS, 2023
Director Yi-Hua Wang
Taiwan, 10 minutes
In various religious rituals and philosophical mindsets, the emphasis is often placed on "transformation." Within the realm of inner knowledge, such actions are referred to as "alchemy of consciousness."
PHANTASMAGORIA, 2023
Director Alexis Herrera
Colombia, 24 minutes
A lonely illusionist spends gray afternoons imagining Galatea, his missing assistant, and muse, and even feels her hypnotic, pale gaze stalking him as if patiently waiting for him to finish configuring his great act, an illusion that can make her appear again. For the illusionist, this has become an obsession that has taken away his sleep
JENNY’S ABSINTHE 2023
Director Gregor Gašperin
Slovenia, 12min
A catfishing troll finds himself on the wrong side of the hook
HALLOWSTIDE, 2018
Director Steve Socki
United States, 4 min
Dreamy, haunting forms transform, then ascend into a new spiritual world.
LUX CHROMA, 2022
Director Kwokyong Ng
Malaysia, 11 min
Zac is not just an ordinary digital colorist who color grades videos, he is able to see human's aura and "color grade" their aura to heal them.
RUINENLUST, 2023
Director Peixian Wu
United States, 7 minutes
Through “Ruinenlust”, my realization of this cycle of inner turmoil towards self-discovery and growth steps to the forth, reflecting the complexities of my inner world and the intersection of the philosophy and spirituality navigating it.
THE OTHER MIND: AI and Psychedelics, 2023
Director Gregory David Bart
United States, 15 min
A radical and illuminating approach to AI: what if real answers to shaping an AI future can be found in psychedelics and our shamanic heritage?
WIZINSKI’S AC SERVICE, 2023
Director Michael Andrew Swastek
United States, 9 min
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An eccentric man's prank leads to eternal torture.
MOTHERSHIP, 2022
Director Joe Burrascano
United States, 4 min
An intergalactic god wakes up on a barren planet with no memory of who he is or where he comes from.
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
INISIYA, 2023
Director İpek Elif Aytar
Turkey, 3min
In a psychedelic universe, a jade stone from space crashes into a planet where the long-legged blue goat lives. The crash creates enormous cracks in the ground, and the goat and the stone fall into the void of darkness through the cracks.
LAWLA, 2022
Director Guillaume Simonin
Belgium, 5 minute
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
Jean Cocteau.
130 pm-230 pm
OUR VANISHING WORLD
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.
230 pm- 430pm
PSYCHEDELIC SCI-FI AND HORROR
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.
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.
430 pm-630 pm
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.
VAIDYARAAJ, 2023
Director Nilesh Laxmikant Deshpande
India, 19 min
He realizes that GOD DHANVANTARI whom he worships, had himself come in his place to cure the child. This brings tears to VAIDYARAAJ’s Eyes.
WILDFIRES, 2023
Director Peter Hriso
United States, 2 min
There are no ulterior motives or hidden messages in my work.
SLOWDIVE, Pure Joy, 2022
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.
POCKET KNIFE, Feat Anna Domino, 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)
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.
SHAMANS 2018
Director Santiago Echeverry
United States, 4 min
Shamans is the portrait of 4 artists living and working in London, UK.
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.
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
630 pm-7 pm
AWARD PRESENTATIONS