Other Cinema: Psychedelic Cinema

OC is truly honored to welcome back esteemed European critic, author, and curator Kornelia Boczkowska! This incendiary cinema visionary is in fact a huge fan of West Coast aesthetics, and she keeps breaking new discursive ground around those idiosyncratic sensibilities that are so dear to our native filmmaking themes and practices. Tonight she unveils the regional premiere of an absolutely reality-ripping line-up of films that address...the Psychedelic State-of-Mind!! Among the genius heads on exhibition are Jordan Belson, Melissa Faivre, Linda Scobie, Dominic Angerame, Richard Tuohy/Dianna Barrie, and the world debut of Toney Merritt's Vision Quest Remix. These makers--and a dozen more!--attempt to induce hallucinatory states thru mesmerizing kaleidoscopic forms, pulsating lights, vivid colors, otherworldly sounds, and atmospheric imagery. Local superstars Scobie, Merritt, and Angerame materialize in person to share their brain-wave secrets! PLUS Glen McKay's Playland visuals, and, yes, Daisy Ascencio's liquid lightshow, out of our gallery's much-revered overhead projector.