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Trippy Videos and Movies (Psych Media Subthread)

Propyl Power said:
^The Holy Mountain is one of the best... I think Herzog (much as I love him) might be a little heavy on the nihilism and despair for tripping though lol


I'm obsessed with the films of Matthew Barney. Gorgeous, pristine works of art: The 5 Cremaster films (2 & 3 especially) and Drawing Restraint 9 (which goes great with ketamine - so many hidden passages, tunnels, trap-doors, liminal states, folding rooms, etc)

Unfortunately they must be downloaded in order to be seen - unless you want to pay the $100,000 dollar price tag for the full Cremaster Cycle DVD set!!!

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I just want to second this post above, I was lucky to see Cremaster #? in NY at the Gugenheim (sp?) back in April 03'. Amazing work! I'll never forget it. 18 years old, film container full of K. doing lines & bumps in the museum. Walking around eyes about to fall out of their sockets. Good Times!!!!! For a trippy movie I'll have to go with Fist of the North Star! & City of The Lost Children, the second time I took acid this movies opening scene freaked me out so I had to turn it off. (the santa scene, if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about.) I actually avoided this movie for a few years till I put it back in. I just wished that I had waited alittle longer after the first scene before I turned it off. I would have loved to see the full thing on acid, Great movie!
 
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Take an old video camera from the eighties, plug it into an old analog television, and point the camera at the TV. It will feed back in a recursive, fractal pattern. If you really want, you can get two tvs with a mirror between the two doing the same thing, then output the signals to a projector, basically using old tvs, mirrors and cameras to make a gigantic fractal kaleidoscope that you can point at stuff.
 
SleepingTaper said:
I was lucky to see Cremaster #? in NY at the Gugenheim (sp?) back in April 03'. Amazing work! I'll never forget it.
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Sooo jealous 8o

I did get to see Cremaster 3 on the big screen tho... definitely a highlight of my life. :D


If anyone downloads these films and can only think 'WTF?!' in response (not that there's anything wrong with that ;)), http://www.cremaster.net is a good resource with somewhat explanatory synopses of each film :)
 
While I've never before really felt motivated to watch a video while tripping....this may change as a couple of days ago I just watched INLAND EMPIRE for the second time (it had been a couple of years...) remembering this is the most intense and beautiful three hours of digital video I've experienced. I can't imagine it on a psychedelic but it certainly must magnify the mind-rending depths a viewer in plummeted into even while sober.

INLAND EMPIRE. Don't forget it.
 
i was unimpressed with drawing restaint 9. i felt it was far too pretentious. so i'm apprehensive about these others of his... hrmmm. i may seek them out for the hell of it.
 
holy shit i watched a trailer for cremaster 1 and it looked freaky as fuck. i think that would scare the shit out of me lol.

i've never done acid, but my 2 movie recommendations are "donnie darko" and "gummo"

it took me 3 days to watch gummo because it would make me feel depressed and shit lol.
 
Gummo is a good (but not great) trip movie, sort of like Natural Born Killers

Forgot to methion the Live in a Dive video of a Swingin' Utters show and Live at the Palladium video of a Bad religion show.
 
i enjoyed the movie Primer in such a state. but i'm a physics dork and in love with time-travel
also, The Man From Earth was pretty head-fucking too for a movie full of dialogue
 
^ I really enjoyed The Man From Earth. Not so much a film as an afterdinner conversation maybe but well worth a watch. Primer has been recommended to me a coupla times now so will get around to it.

Egor: I find Gummo pretty damn bleak sober let alone trying to watch it tripping - I salute the strength of your stomach :D

I highly recommend Stalker for tripping or non-tripping - it's just an amazing film. PooToob clip - that sequence alone is worth the price of admission <3
 
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Egor: I find Gummo pretty damn bleak sober let alone trying to watch it tripping - I salute the strength of your stomach :D
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lmao. ya gummo is somewhat of a classic. i'll never forget that armwrestling scene lol. i literally stood up and screamed "what the fuck?!" at my computer while laughing lol.

or another classic scene was the tub scene lol.



oh and to add another trip suggestion, watch the wizard of oz with Pink Floyd's "The dark side of the moon." my cousin said that was trippy.
 
Shambles said:
I highly recommend Stalker for tripping or non-tripping - it's just an amazing film. PooToob clip - that sequence alone is worth the price of admission <3
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That scene set me on a mission to find the "Stalker" theme 8 or 9 years ago. The music was composed by Edward Artemiev, who did a lot of Tarkovsky's music. The guy's been doing electronic music since the 60s!

I was astounded by the way the music worked with the video in "Stalker"; it was doing something far beyond what I usually thought of as being in the domain of a soundtrack. I think that's what made it so psychedelic: the high harmonies the film achieves in the interplay of two different modalities.

His biography at Electroshock confirms his synesthetic leanings:

"Thanks to electronics, which enabled him 'to enter a qualitatively different acoustical world, sound colour and timbre became the field where a search for new musical laws and relationship could be undertaken. 'Sound is a palette with most subtle and lavish nuances of colours. Electronics lends some new qualities to it: peculiar acoustical sounding, unlimited duration, abundance of timbres'. It is in electronics that Artemiev finds what most appeals to his gift. For him the synthesiser is a possibility to compose" sound, timbre, to sculpt it, to lend form, "colour", energy, duration.

His findings in the sphere of colouring have expanded the limits of timbre perception. In the composition "Mosaic" (1967) "sonors" - timbres become independent means to express the motion of sounds in space."
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Still, I've got to say a lot of people will be frustrated by "Stalker". It's more poetic and contemplative than the fantastic sensory assault that's usually implied by "psychedelic". Just don't expect "Yellow Submarine" or "The Matrix."
 
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Oh yeah. It's no swirly, happy, giggly, ball o' pretty colours and fun, but for those (and this is something we seem to agree on to an extent) that love real "depth" to a film when tripping (or even just sober) Stalker is well worth a go, in my opinion. Not for the CGI mob, but for those that like hefty doses of philosophy, beauty and "art" with their films I'd say it's well worth tracking down :)

Also, thanks for the heads up on the music front - was unaware of the significance of that aspect beyond the fact it suits the film perfectly :)
 
Koyaanisqatsi

I am very serious, anyone who is about to take a trip, I highly recommend you get this movie. It is fucking incredible.
 
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