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Posted on August 30th, 2009 in Hollywood Movies

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Flicker is the feature film about a weekend camping trip to a small mountain town. Pretty and Jack wake up in the middle of the night to discover that their friends are missing. A bloody tent, homicidal cops, creepy locals and brutal elements create the world that Pretty must escape.
A simple machine that uses light to create a trippy state of mind — that was the brainwave of artist/poet/mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin understood the movement of light and how it could contribute to altered states of mind, and FLicKeR is a documentary about his life and his work.

Gysin’s interest in art, consciousness and a drug-free high led him to develop something called a Dream Machine, which consisted of a light inside a rotating cylinder; the cylinder had patterned holes that let light flicker across the eyelid at a rate that approximated the frequency of alpha waves in the brain. People who tried the Dream Machine experienced interesting visions of shape and colour. Some had hallucinations similar to dream landscapes (and a few even had seizures.)

Kurt Cobain had a Dream Machine, according to this film. Not too surprisingly, Gysin was close buds with William S. Burroughs, and the movie includes conversations with Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and singer/artist Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV. The filmmaker Kenneth Anger turns up to talk about Gysin, as does poet John Giorno. The movie combines archival footage and more recent interviews.

Gysin himself comes across in FLicKeR as a bit of a loose cannon and a guy with bad luck on the self-marketing front. He kept ruining his own chances for success, say those who knew him, until bitterness became one of his defining characteristics. Too bad, because in exploring how mechanical devices change the expression and creation of art, Gysin was way ahead of his time. He even imagined that the Dream Machine might replace the television, prompting greater creativity in the general public.

As if.

The movie throws out some details about Gysin’s interest in telepathy and ancient arts of spell casting and whatnot, and suggests that some iconic rock stars — Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix — channelled a spiritual force through their performances. Gysin was fascinated by Moroccan Jajouka music, too; all the hocus-pocus elements lead one friend of Gysin’s to wonder if the artist got sucked into the forces of his own magic, as if he’d created some dark entity that eventually overwhelmed him.

FLicKeR is an interesting film to watch, but it doesn’t tend to stick with you once you’ve left the theatre. The movie, which is based in part on the book Chapel of Extreme Experience by John Geiger, won a Special Jury Prize for a Canadian Documentary at the 2008 Hot Docs Festival

September 4th, 2009
Aaron Hendren
Aaron Hendren
Katy Houska, Babak Tafti, Kate Schroeder, Alex Knight, Kevin R Elder, Abigail Blueher, Hannah Kauffmann
Egg Murders Productions, LLC
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