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‘John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office’ Puts a Spotlight on the Psychonaut and Dolphins (Exclusive Trailer)
Attempts to converse with other species, such as dolphins, whales or even extraterrestrials, the use of isolation tanks and a recommendation “to get terror-stricken” — those are just some of the elements teased in a trailer for John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office. The film, written and directed by Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens and narrated by Chloë Sevigny, will world premiere at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Showcasing archival material, the essayistic movie explores the life and ideas of utopian neuroscientist John C. Lilly, who developed the isolation tank, or sensory deprivation tank, and whose unorthodox work and experiments on human and animal consciousness were as ambitious as they were controversial.
Putting a new spotlight on an era in U.S. counterculture, it shows how Lilly predicted that humans would be able to find ways to communicate with other species, particularly marine animals, but potentially also extraterrestrial life. Speaking of alien concepts: he also became known for his LSD experiments on dolphins and his own drug- and isolatio
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
With a stunning array of archival images and sounds, renowned filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda explore the life and ideas of intrepid mid-century utopian neuroscientist, John C. Lilly, whose unorthodox experimentations into human and animal consciousness were controversial in methodology but far-reaching in intent.
Featuring startling archival images and audio interviews, and with a narration voiced by Chloë Sevigny, this collaboration between filmmakers Courtney Stephens and Michael Almereyda charts a cornucopia of ideas and impressions of a long-lost era in US counterculture, a time when literally anything seemed possible.
Wildly intrepid neuroscientist John C. Lilly was part of a constellation of mid-twentieth century utopian scientists, who worked at the nexus of psychology, ethnology, psychoanalysis, animal studies and psychedelic experimentation. Lilly’s ideas around society and the potential of human (and animal) awareness – notably his highly unorthodox (NASA-funded!) LSD experimentations with dolphins – were radical for the time and seem undoubtedly alien from today’s perspective. However Stephens and Almereyda recognise their subject as “a person w