Movies: Psychedelic

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami ...

A lonely spinster's failed attempt at arranging flowers summons an ominous shadowy figure who sends her into a psychedelic netherworld to confront her own mediocrity....

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV news, porn films and army stock movies. ...Substitution Number 4...

A burnt-out globetrotter, disconnected from his family, wanders into a psychedelic adventure in Kathmandu....

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....

Sugar Walls Teardom reveals the contributions of Black womxn’s wombs to the advancement of modern medical science and technology....

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?...

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami....

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane....

The film is divided into fifteen chapters. Each chapter has a topic of its own and develops a unique visual style. All parts are connected by a certain theme: the conjunctive concept of the film is the idea of universal transformation and movement, ...

A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French...

3D animated short of computer made visuals....

A walk through the forest illuminated by the patented dot design of Noj Barker and the psychedelic digital vision of Lulu Ixix....

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A surreal, pop-art depiction of a young girl losing her virginity....

"The Inner Demon" consists of a red-saturated pallet that subconsciously produces a danger response in the viewer's mind. This along with the repetitive nature and monosyllabic delivery gives the piece an unnerving feel designed to replicate that of ...

Two boys experience the wild effects of LSD for the first time, leading one of them into a swirling world of memories and dreams. As he becomes trapped in a haunting loop from his school days, he grapples with forgotten truths and unanswered question...

Animated documentary of the founding of The Holy Modal Rounders - the first group to use the term psychedelic in recorded music....

“’Psych-Burn’ was what musicians call a ‘contract-breaker’. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV Pilot. “Love-In Tonite” was to be a psychedelic rock variety show with live performances, skits, and whatnot to cash in on the e...

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. [The song] "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, who was Mary Pickford's husban...