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Oliver Hockenhull
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: Not Rated
: Documentary, Biographies, Experimental/Avant-Garde
: 69 min.
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A low budget feature film essay on Aldous Huxley's cultural criticism and social prophecy in light of the new millennium. Narrated by Dr. Jean Houston, the film is a contemporary reading of Huxley's oeuvre, a rendition and interpretation, inspired by an immersion into his life and thought. Complex, iconoclastic, psychedelic, historical and not for the everyone.
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity Of Light incorporates rare archival footage, computer rendered 3D animation, speculative fictions and selections from his essays. Personal in tone, the film also recalls the impact of Huxley's LSD-25 and mescaline experimentations and writings for a whole generation of youth and examines the utopianistic impulses associated with the recent (passed) Rave scene. The work reflects the aesthetics and poesis of the psychedelic state without collapsing into the tie-dye cliches that have trivialized the '60's era. Originally released as a 16mm film in 1997, the work has been re-edited for video and includes (as a bonus on the DVD) an interview with the legendary writer/psychopharmacologist/biochemist Alexander Sasha Shulgin.
Festival Screeings: Official Competition, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam; Vancouver International Film Festival; Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal.
Awarded the Best of the Northwest Film/Video Festival.
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| dont waste your time
by mcshyd
October 14, 2005 - 2:24 PM PDT
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2 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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| This is the worst movie I've seen all year. I've seen mr. and mrs. smith. |
| poor excuse
by rarcher
September 2, 2005 - 12:52 PM PDT
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4 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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this movie has only a very small connection with huxley
it seems more like a high school film project by someone trying to be "deep" and using huxley as an excuse to do whatever they want with the rest of the film
how arty |
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