The Door of Perception
This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home, to a pure way of being so that you can feel the beating of your mother’s heart again.
The director Pedro González-Rubio isn’t interested in dialogues and leaves all space to the power of image and sound. Icaros continues his reflection on our relationship with nature, that was started in his preceding films Alamar (2008) and Inori (2012).
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.
Today I spent my first hour inside a floatation tank. If you never heard of it I recommend this article for a start: Sensory Deprivation Tanks. I just started to read a book by John C. Lilly the inventor of the tank. He also combined the lack of external stimuli with large doses of LSD.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
This series from 1975 takes us on a journey around the world to reveal the making and use of tribal art in some of the few places on earth where the traditions are intact.
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
a documentary about refreshingly open-minded scientists, growing old but staying curious and a beautiful love story. ah wait… and psychoactive substances.
After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
Continuum Movement is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore ourself as an unfolding biological and planetary process.
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Painter of poems, writer of spots, dancer of words… Michaux’s work blurs the boundaries between literature, art, and philosophy as self-experiment.
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
My own infrequent writings are purely experientially and I’m not well-read enough to refer to the spiritual heritage of millenia. However others can.
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
Amaringo’s paintings give a good impression of the quality of an ayahuasca vision. Pablo César Amaringo Shuna was born in…
Sarah Schönfeld, an artist from Berlin puts different drugs on photographic negatives. The prints look fantastic…
Kevin Lucbert draws doors into parallel universes. And he mostly uses the color blue, which obviously fits to DOP. It…
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstasy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological…
