Psychedelics in Society and Culture

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Films Lucifer Rising: Filmed in a London studio and at sacred sites in Egypt, France, Germany and England, Lucifer Rising was one of Anger’s most elaborate...

This event is supported by the Psychedelics in Society and Culture initiative. About the Event This evening panel represents a truly interdisciplinary conversation on a series of difficult, crucial questions in the study of the relationship between...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction epic remains a defining film of the Sixties and one of the purest expressions of his vision of Man controlled by fateful...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film The same year that Joan Didion published her stinging critique of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture in her now legendary collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film Now celebrated as a proto-psychedelic classic, Disney’s visually dazzling version of Alice in Wonderland was poorly received in its first release when it met...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film “I wonder what it’s like to be twins. Do you think they know which one they are?” Sissy Spacek’s Pinky Rose asks her eventual roommate Millie—played by an...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film One of Hellman's undisputed masterpieces, The Shooting is a stark variant of the so-called “acid Western” that gave psychedelic dream, here nightmare...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film Independent film pioneer Roger Corman’s The Trip marks one of the earlier forays into psychedelic narrative filmmaking of the 1960s. Written by Jack Nicholson...

PSYCHEDELICS IN SOCIETY & CULTURE PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE About the Film Independent film pioneer Roger Corman’s The Trip marks one of the earlier forays into psychedelic narrative filmmaking of the 1960s. Written by Jack Nicholson...

Psychedelics in Society and Culture About the Event When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil’s rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had...