Movies: Psychedelic

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

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 ...

Ariel is a painter who finds herself stuck in a creative slump that threatens her sanity. Meanwhile, her ego takes the shape of an Astronaut, looking for something that might awaken her from this creative and psychological state...

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...

Deftly riding the membrane between bathos and transcendence, a beautiful video feedback and computer animation film by Ron Hays with an instant classic synth score by Ragnar Grippe....

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....

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

Watch out Earth....

A kid experiences the dreamlike qualities of his childhood all over again....

An erotic pop animation seemingly symbolizing his youth when his soul was taken by the Hollywood actress....

One of Oskar Fischinger's earliest films, Seelische Konstruktionen (as it is known in German), clearly points the way to the masterpieces of musically-blended experimental animation he would conceive in the decades to come. The sense of masterful tim...

“’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...

A star-driven spiraling machine of hallucinatory wonder!...

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...

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"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...

Plagued by visions of what her future could look like, Marcy becomes addicted to a pill that gives her vivid dreams and changes her appearance....

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, ...