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The Flipside | Chappaqua + Triptych in Four Parts
Sat 21st June 6:20pm | BFI Southbank | £(will update)
A psychedelic, LSD-fuelled stream-of-consciousness collage, beautifully shot by Robert Frank and with a great Ravi Shankar soundtrack, overloaded with beautiful imagery to blow your mind.

This screening will be introduced by William Fowler and Vic Pratt, Curators, BFI National Archive. Afterwards, freak out for free to the swirling psychodelic sounds od DJs Mariko and Anti-Gravity Man (The Girls in the Garage) in benugo bar

Chappaqua | Dir. Conrad Rooks | 1966 | USA
Beautifully shot by Robert Frank, with a great Ravi Shankar soundtrack, but rarely screened today, this psychedelic stream-of-consciousness collage is overloaded with beautiful imagery to blow your mind. A troubled young man leaves New York to seek drug detox in a sanatorium in France. On the way he licks up LSD from the carpet at a Fugs gig, scopes Moondog on the sidewalk and encounters Allen Ginsberg chanting in Central Park, before ‘Opium Jones’ - William Burroughs in top hat and tailcoat - offers sage advice.

Triptych in Four Parts | Dir. Lawrence Jordan | 1958 | USA
A Beat film by visionary collagist and animator Larry Jordan. Join poets Michael McClure and Philip Lamantia, plus artists John Reed and Wallace Berman, as they go in search of psychedelic experience and religious epiphany in the peyote grounds of deepest Texas.