The Best Psychedelic Short Films
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- DirectorDominique MonferyStarsDora LuzJennifer EspositoSalvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.
- DirectorPeter BayntonCharlie MackesyStarsJude Coward NicollTom HollanderIdris ElbaFollows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
- DirectorRobert MorganThe separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
- DirectorRobert MorganStarsLivy ArmstrongDaniel Hogwood-KaneVictoria HayesThe dark, surreal story of a cat who wants to be human.
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsTatsuhisa SuzukiTakako HondaWataru TakagiA love story between two people that each have a secret to hide. One a pro-wrestler, the other a Nun. Losing never felt so good.
- DirectorChristopher KezelosA strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
- DirectorIshu PatelStarsLinda MorrisonJason LangAron TagerAn environmental morality tale. A divine gate gives one all that one desires, on the condition that one takes only what one needs and one gives something good in return.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
- DirectorIshu PatelA psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerThree surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsRyan LarkinChris LandrethFelicity FanjoyThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilDonald CammellEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsNad'a MunzarováJirí ProcházkaBohuslav SrámekTwo puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStones of different shapes and colors live and die together.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorTeddy NewtonStarsMuneer LyatiWayne DyerDay encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods. But their suspicions soon turn to curiosity, and they are delighted to find the joys of their budding friendship.
- DirectorJoseph PellingBecky SloanStarsBaker TerryBecky SloanJoseph PellingNow that Duck is gone as well, Yellow Guy is being tortured and mocked by a lamp who is trying to teach him about dreams. Meanwhile, Red Guy discovers the truth about their show.
- DirectorOwen DennisStarsAshley JohnsonErnie HudsonJeremy Crutchley12-year-old Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.