THE PSYCHEDELIC FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Producers Club and Theater
358 West 44th St.
NYC
Sunday All Day Pass is $45.
Weekend All-Day Pass is $ 65
All Film Blocks are $17
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12
10:00- 10:30 AM
Meditation -Free
10:30 AM -11:AM
Tea and Biscuits at the Bar - Free
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
BLOCK 1
THE INNER JOURNEY
THE THEATER OF THE MIND
Join Dan Abella, author of Theater of the Mind, as he explores through the cinematic journey the interconnectivity between the outer world and our inner world. Dan draws parallels from films, art, music, news to demonstrate we all have a powerful psychedelic feature in our mind that we can open up at will. Dan will have his latest book The Theater of the Mind available for purchase.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
BLOCK 2
SHORTS PRESENTATION- ALTERED STATES
All Film Blocks are $17
2020, 2020
Directors Tom Bessoir with Joshua Pines
US, 1 min
A film for 2020, a year to remember. 2020 explores different colors to create a flicker film. Music by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
HARDCORE HALBERT, 2020
Director Riley Lynch
US, 12 min
Halbert is a sad young lad trying to tend to an ailing ficus plant. Despite his vigorous watering regimen, the ficus will not grow. One day, heavy metal music drifts over his neighbor’s fence, causing a new leaf to sprout from the sapling. Halbert quickly picks up the music as a new passion. His mother, however, wants him to stop wasting time on his ever-rotating wheel of hobbies, and to focus on his future.
AGING ROCKERS, 2018
Director Jim Serbent
US, 7 min
Aging Rockers V2.0, a darkly humorous tribute to aging rockers everywhere and to those musical luminaries who have left us.
PRISM , 2021
Director Emma Blaise Doty
US, 4 min
“Prism” acts as the container for the multimedia, abstract, experimental experience. In this film we will go on a journey through the full spectrum of light and color. The themes of the landscapes portraying these colors are inspired by the 7 chakra points
GLF-LSD, 2019
Director Jordan Bateman
UK, 13 min
GLF LSD is narrated by Alan Wakeman, an early member of the Gay Liberation Front. Alan discussed the connection between the GLF and LSD as an essential part of becoming... We hear Alan describe his experiences with LSD - we learn about his personal realizations and his discoveries. Visually the film is comprised of multiple super-impositions, layered 16mm material, and physical, handmade special effects.
JALA SUITE: deep air, 2020
Directors: Jing Wang, Harvey Goldman
US, 7 min
The “visual music” collaborations of Jing Wang and Harvey Goldman attempt to produce a synesthesia-like experience. The audience is encouraged to “see” the music and “hear” the visuals. The imagery and audio components are constructed without hierarchy, a true melding of sound and image.
KAROSHI, 2021
Director Geerten Harmens
The Netherlands, 19 min
In the world of Karoshi, we follow the hard and dull life of a young car mechanic named Lucas Rêves. He has given up on all of his ambitions until one day a mysterious figure arrives in his garage. After this figure hits a woman in front of his garage with his car, Lucas gets the chance to make his dream of becoming a surgeon into reality.
DAZZLE SHIPS, 2021
Director Solomon Burbridge,
Executive Producer Todd Haynes
US, 19 min
In Dazzle Ships, the performers and their desire to feel loved are set in an internal feedback loop where the weapon of psychic disturbance becomes a tool of self-awakening. The result is a genuine reflection of the fewest who are exposed. The magic of the obscure and ephemeral.
CRONICO, 2021
Director Claudia Calderon
Puerto Rico, 3 min
During the 2020 worldwide quarantine, a young hip-hop singer finds solace in marihuana. Crónico is a collage animation music video that explores the daily rituals of a man during these uncertain pandemic times, combined with fantasies that help him escape reality and even reimagine his own history
FLORABUNDUS
Director Big Top Collective
US, 1 min
FLORABUNDAS is an experimental digital video we made using images of our sculptures and is part of a new series of short experimental digital videos called DREAM STORM
DUSTRIA, 2020
Director Alison Tanenhaus
US, 5 min
Dustria is a candy-colored, slightly sinister, otherworldly meditation on industrial wasteland atmospheric decay. Presented in the form of a hypnotic music video for Boston electronic synth duo The Square Root of Negative Two.
IXION #2 "The EyeCandy™",2021
Director Joey Bargsten
US, 7 min
Joey Bargsten's fake stereoscopic film for his VR project "The Other: A Maze," IXION #2 "The EyeCandy™" features identical side-by-side videos of abstract imagery produced by his own motion-reactive visual synthesis based on the legendary Rutt-Etra analog video synthesizer of the 1970s.
TROUBLE BLUES, 2021
Director Justin Jalien Gerard
US, 4 min
This is the second official video from the rock band KMI. Here we see them hurtling through outer space in a spaceship. They decide to land on planet earth and play a live show in NYC’s Bryant Park.
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
BLOCK 3
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION:
All Film Blocks are $17
DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN,2021
Director Maartje Nevejan
Germany, Switzerland, 78 min
Descending the Mountain’ takes us on a journey of mystical revelations, experienced through meditation and psilocybin. To understand how psychedelics reveal the nature of consciousness, psychiatrist Franz and Zen master Vanja guide experienced meditators – who have never used psychedelics before – through a ground-breaking scientific experiment on the majestic Swiss Mount Rigi.
3:20 PM- 4:00 PM
Music Presentation by Drew Smith
Drew will be performing live the song “ What Do You See” as well as other psychedelic tracks.
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
BLOCK 4
SHORTS PROGRAM- PSYCHEDELIC-EERIE- UNCANNY
All Film Blocks are $17
GENGHIS TRON -Dream Weapon ( Official Music Video)
Director Matthew Newman
US, 5 min
This is the official video for the song Dream Weapon by the band Genghis Tron. Someone finds their lucky potential ladder, constructs it, and says goodbye to this place
TRUTH ABOUT HASTINGS, 2020
Director Dan Schneidkraut
Strange things are afoot in Hastings, Nebraska
US, 10 min.
ONE SOUL FOR TWO, 2021
Director Georgiy Smirnov
Russian Federation, 28 min
The young sculptor Danila is accused of a terrible crime. An attempt to understand what has happened and look inside your subconscious leads to mysterious events that turn upside down the young man’s worldview along with his life itself.
SOLO PUNK, 2019
Director Rozalyn Mattocks
US, 8 min
A woman isolated in a bunker struggles to decipher reality from her mind's eye
MOTHER'S DAY, 2018
Director Elizabeth Tabish
US, 22 min
California, 1968. Jane has a perfect life. A loving husband, a darling daughter and -hands down-the grooviest home in the neighborhood.But all that is no match for the painful memories of Jane's childhood as they emerge on the eve of Mother's Day.
ECHO ULTRA, 2020
Director Alex Trierweiler
US, 20 min
A scientist guides a lost pilot through a dangerous and mind-bending ordeal.
THE 12TH MAN, 2021
Director Vishal Sridhar
US, 12 min
As the weather conditions become increasingly unexplainable, Donnie is stuck at home after losing his job. He gets into a banter with his only friend "SAM" the AI from his phone. The banter takes a different and unexpected turn when heavy lightning strikes.
THE UNORTHODOX SERIES- THE PILOT, 2020
Director Laura Barbato
US, 17 min
“The Unorthodox Series” are one-of-a-kind, chilling yet symbolic storytelling adventures captured from the first-person point of view, in order to reveal all that glitters!
THE WARNING, 2020
Miguel Gomez- Canales
Spain, 4 min
The year 2020. A woman receives a message from the Virgin Mary.
IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, 2021
Director Marielle Tepper
The Czech Republic, 4 min
What will happen to us? What happens when humanity becomes extinct? A new art video by artist Marielle Tepper shows us how the world may look before and after its end.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
BLOCK 5
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
All Film Blocks are $17
UNDERNEATH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TERROR, 2021
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Directors: John Nicol, Andre Becker, Cory Ivanchuk
Canada, 76 min
UNDERNEATH is an anthology in the vein of CREEPSHOW and is comprised of five chapters, an epilogue, and several mind-bending vignettes that are all bound together by something unnatural and sinister.
Catch the Trailer for Underneath- An Anthology of Terror
7:30 PM - 9:15 PM
BLOCK 6
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
All Film Blocks are $17
CORPSE, 2018
Director Christopher Ernst
US, 83 min
An experimental film based on the classic weird fiction anthology "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, CORPSE uses a fractured narrative of surreal flashbacks and dream sequences to tell the story of a C-list reality TV star, her best friend, and a group of young entrepreneurs who encounter a forbidden book which induces madness in those who read it.
9:20 PM - 11:00 PM
BLOCK 7
A FEATURE PRESENTATION
All Film Blocks are $17
THE BERLIN BRIDE, 2019
Director Michael Bartlett
Germany, US, 73 min
A near-silent tale inspired by the silent film era, the writings of Poe, and the German fantasist E.T.A Hoffmann. Two oddball Berliners discover individually the parts of a department store mannequin in a city park occupied by nude sunbathers. Under the mannequin's spell, and with a harrowing consequence, the men come to terms with their disjointed mate. A cautionary tale of unrequited sexuality and blurring gender identity. A surreal vision of sexual evolution and misguided passion.