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The Stoned Apocalypse
Thursday, August 21, 2008, 7:30 PM
YBCA Screening Room
THE STONED APOCALYPSEA look at different approaches to extreme states of consciousness through experiments with light, music, drugs or even filmmaking.
Thu, Aug 7, 7:30 pm
U.S. Premiere
FLicKeR
BY NIK SHEEHAN
Director Nik Sheehan in personPoet, artist and mystic Brion Gysin believed that the seemingly simple dream machine he created would revolutionize human consciousness. Director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into Gysin’s life—his art, his complex ideas and his friendships with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures. Features luminaries like William S. Burroughs (in archival footage), Marianne Faithfull, Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, Iggy Pop, Kenneth Anger and DJ Spooky,
FLicKeR is a hypnotic documentary.
(2008, 72 min, digital video)
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The screening of FLicKeR is a benefit for the Film/Video department. All donations will support YBCA’s Film/Video programs.
Sun, Aug 10, 7:30 pm
GHOST IN THE SHELL II: INNOCENCE
BY MAMORU OSHIEven if you hate anime, you will be overwhelmed by the breathtaking visual and spiritual experience that is
Ghost in the Shell II. It is 2032 and humans, animals and machines have intermingled to such an extent that distinctions among life forms have become almost arbitrary. Bato is a cyborg detective with a man-made body but with a human brain, who is investigating the case of a female robot who killed her owner.
(2004, 99 min, 35mm)
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Thu, Aug 14, 7:30 pm
DOG STAR MAN
BY STAN BRAKHAGERarely screened yet widely recognized as one of the key works of experimental film,
Dog Star Man is a multilayered, psychedelic epic about a man climbing a snowy mountain. Deeply personal in inspiration,
Dog Star Man has a cosmic scope and a hero of mythic proportions, comparable to other twentieth century modernist classics such as James Joyce's Ulysses.
(1961–64, 16mm, 78 min, silent)
Thu, Aug 21, 7:30 pm
LEGENDARY LIGHT SHOWSFar from hippy nostalgia, this is a program of rarely-seen, stunning film and video by legendary light show artists from San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and London. The program showcases light, color and liquid projections layered with film and handmade slides, from multimedia shows originally performed live at rock concerts with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and many others.
(1966-1970, 70 min, 16mm and digital video)
Presented in association with Center for Visual Music
Sun, Aug 24, 7:30 pm
LE LIT DE LA VIERGE (THE VIRGIN’S BED)
BY PHILIPPE GARRELA shipping error prevented us from showing Philippe Garrrel’s extraordinary film in its intended format for a screening this past May, so we’ve rescheduled it.
Le Lit de la Vierge is a minimalist, psychedelic retelling of the Christ story, shot in Brittany, Morocco and Rome under the influence of LSD and in stunning black-and-white Cinemascope. Don’t miss it.
(1968, 114 min, 35mm)