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FLicKeR

  • Director(s):
    Nik Sheehan
    Producer(s):
    Maureen Judge, Anita Lee
    • Canada
    • 75 min
    • HDCam
    • English

The dream machine looks simple enough: A 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The dream machine offers a drugless high that its creator - poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin - believed would revolutionize human consciousness. He wasn't alone. Kurt Cobain had a dream machine. And William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to "storm the citadels of enlightenment." With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin - his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures. Taking the dream machine as the basis of its explorations, FLicKeR asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness, and imagines a humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.

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