Alive Mind is presenting the New York City premiere of FLicKeR. This award-winning documentary will début this Saturday the 13th at 8:00 p.m. with another showing on Sunday, also at 8:00 p.m., at Anthology Film Archives. Director, Nik Sheehan, will be in attendance along with special guests from the film. DJ Spooky will be appearing in person for the Sunday show.
The film chronicles the life and ideas of Brion Gysin (1916 - 1986), poet, artist and mystic who created a "dream machine," a drug-free way to achieve altered states of mind through dancing pulses of light, which he and his friends believed would revolutionize human consciousness. Gysin believed in the revolutionary power of art and Sheehan's film explores the nature of art and consciousness through Gysin's legacy and his relationships with musicians Kurt Cobain, Marianne Faithfull and Iggy Pop, poet John Giorno, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and many other shining lights of 20th century counterculture art. There will also be a special program of classic "Flicker" films by Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Peter Kubelka, William S. Burroughs and Anthony Balch, among others. San Francisco Weekly says of the film, "The rare documentary that jumps beyond informative and entertaining into the realm of mind-expanding, FLicKeR blends revelatory biography, energizing philosophy, and seductive trances."
To order tickets and see the rest of Anthology's special weekend program, click here.
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