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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com');> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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