Red e Mandy levam uma vida tranquila numa cabana isolada junto a um lago do Colorado (EUA). Um dia, a sua casa é invadida por membros de uma seita religiosa que matam Mandy e deixam Red à beira da morte. Traumatizado, apenas uma coisa o mantém preso à vida: um intenso desejo de punir os responsáveis.
Josh e Cornelia Srebnick, formam um feliz casal de Nova Iorque, que tentou começar uma família, não conseguiu e decidiu que estava bem assim. Mas enquanto Josh trabalha na enésima edição do seu novo documentário, torna-se óbvio que há um bloqueio e que alguma coisa está em falta. Eis que entra em cena outro casal, formado por Jamie e Darby, espontâneo e de espírito livre, preparado para deixar tudo para trás em busca da nova paixão: jogos de tabuleiro num dia, uma galinha de estimação no outro. Para Josh, é como se se tivesse aberto uma porta para a sua juventude ou a que gostaria de ter tido. Em pouco tempo, os inquietos quarentões, Josh e Cornelia, colocam de parte os amigos da sua idade, incluindo Adam Horovitz (antigo membro dos Beastie Boys), para seguirem estes jovens hipsters que parecem tão ligados, desinibidos e arrojados. ... será a nova inspiração suficiente para sustentar a relação e amizade com um casal vinte anos mais novo?
Celebrities recall their most mind-bending trips via animations, reenactments and more in this comedic documentary exploring the story of psychedelics.
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.
Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.
By coincidence rather than by design, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact that reaches far beyond the scientific world. THE SUBSTANCE is an investigation into our troubled relationship with LSD, told from its beginnings to today.
Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico for centuries. This entheogen's mysteries are thoroughly explored, by Director Erin Wyche, from an American view point.
A documentary chronicling the "youth movement" of the late '60s on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique" USA 1966-69, 3 min "San Francisco" Great Britain 1967/68, 15 min. "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable" USA/Great Britain 1967, 12 min. "Eyetoon" USA 1967/68, 8 min.
1967 Navy training film MN-10507-A. Navy physician talks about the dangers of LSD or "Russian roulette in a sugar cube." National Archives Identifier: 6379 "How LSD was discovered, the extreme dangers of using it and how it affects the brain and body."
A queer poet navigates heartbreak through writing, techno, and self-destruction.
In a family torn by addiction, a timid teenager named Shane attempts to find and reunite with his older brother.
When he gets to his destination, his entire reality is shattered by a mind-bending discovery.
