John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
A film by Michael Almereyda
w/ Chloë Sevigny, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Allen Ginsberg
The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russel’s Altered States and Mike Nichols’s The Day of the Dolphin. Directors Michael Almareyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.
"[John Lilly] is less a hagiography (or a takedown) of the man than it uses him to chart how outrageous ideas become mainstreamed, tracing his life, work, and ideas through the 1950s into the 1970s and beyond."
Clint Worthington
RogerEbert.com
w/ Chloë Sevigny, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Allen Ginsberg
The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russel’s Altered States and Mike Nichols’s The Day of the Dolphin. Directors Michael Almareyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.
"[John Lilly] is less a hagiography (or a takedown) of the man than it uses him to chart how outrageous ideas become mainstreamed, tracing his life, work, and ideas through the 1950s into the 1970s and beyond."
Clint Worthington
RogerEbert.com
