Wow, what responses. Peeping Tom
Rabbit's Moon?--Kenneth Anger Tenant Venus in Fur Confessions--Stan Brakhage On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Elizabeth McMahon <elizmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gene, > > Don't forget Bob Rafelson's "Head"! Or Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend, > or John Korty's "Go Ask Alice." There's also Uli Edel's "Christian F." > > On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Thanks, Pip. It’s for rent on Amazon, so I’ll take a look. >> >> And THANKS TO EVERYONE for your responses to my query. >> >> >> On March 22, 2017 at 9:31:16 PM, Pip Chodorov (framewo...@re-voir.com) >> wrote: >> >> Gene, >> Concerning acid trips, Gaspar Noé asked my advice >> when he was developing his film "Enter the Void." >> We are both huge fans of Kubrick's 2001 as well >> as of abstract psychedlic films such as by Jordan >> Belson and the Whitney brothers. He is also a >> neighbor in Paris. >> He asked me what films he should watch to get >> ideas of how to represent a drug trip, and >> because he already saw all the films I suggested, >> his research had consisted in taking various >> quantities of interesting drugs. >> I think he succeeded in representing the trip >> visually as abstract patterns filling the screen. >> The film is shown strictly in 1st person POV of >> the main character (we even stare into his eyes >> as he looks in the mirror, while his eyeblinks >> are represented as periodic black flickers), and >> the drug trip clouds that vision. >> Incidentally there is a structural similarity >> with 2001 in his film, as the character spends >> the second half of the film in space-limbo, and >> the journey ends with a psychedelic trip through >> a uterus to end in an explosion and a fetus... >> -Pip >> >> >> >> At 10:41 -0600 22/03/17, Gene Youngblood wrote: >> >Friends, I¹m seeking recommendations of feature >> >films with scenes that attempt to visualize >> >inner states of mind such as breakdowns >> >(Vertigo), nightmares (Spellbound), acid trips >> >(Easy Rider) or any other kind of hallucination >> >(Altered States). Ecstatic or horrific doesn¹t >> >matter. Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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