LALA and the Perverts Cine Club, in collaboration with The Dream Palace present a screening of rarely seen psychedelic films from the 50s, 60s and 70s. A significant branch of the period’s avant-garde cinema was strongly influenced by the cultures of hallucinogenic substances, the underground’s new-found interest in the occult and ideas of a cosmic space consciousness. Expanded abstract cinema was seen as opening access to the human subconscious and even as a potential mirroring of the non-linear and warped logic of dreams. The screening which lasts 80 minutes with a short break features seven of the most trippy underground films of the period.

Jordan Belson – Allures, 1961, 8’
Lillian Schwartz – Pixillation, 1970, 4’
Harry Smith – No 11, 1957, 4’
Jane Conger Belson Shimané – Odds & Ends, 1959, 4’
Storm De Hirsch – Peyote Queen, 1965, 9’
Larry Jordan – Our Lady of the Sphere, 1968, 10’
Lillian Schwartz – UFOs, 1971, 3’
Paul Sharits – TOUCHING, 10’
James Whitney – Yantra, 1957, 7’
Scott Bartlett – OffOn, 1968, 9’
Beverly Conrad & Tony Conrad – Straight & Narrow, 1970, 10’