NFB Collection
FLicKeR
200751 min 37 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Nik Sheehan
Production: Maureen Judge (Makin' Movies Inc.)Anita Lee (National Film Board of Canada)Silva Basmajian
Script: Nik Sheehan
Co-produced by Makin' Movies Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada.
The dream machine looks simple enough: a 100-watt light bulb, a motor and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes and wait for the visions to come. Its creator, Brion Gysin, believed it would revolutionize human consciousness.
With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin – his art, his complex ideas and his friendships with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures, including his lifelong connection with Beat writer William S. Burroughs.
Featuring greats like singer Marianne Faithfull, singer/artist Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, poet John Giorno, punk rocker Iggy Pop, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and artist/turntablist DJ Spooky, FLicKeR is a hypnotic documentary that asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness – and imagines humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.
Subject categories
- Social Issues > Cultural GroupsIndividual in SocietyPortraits
Credits
- writer
- Nik Sheehan
- director
- Nik Sheehan
- producer
- Maureen Judge
- Anita Lee
- executive producer
- Maureen Judge
- Silva Basmajian
- based on the book
- John Geiger
- director of photography
- Harald Bachmann
- editor
- Caroline Christie
- Miume Jan Eramo
- original music
- Edmund Eagan
- participant
- Kenneth Anger
- Marcus Boon
- Udo Breger
- Catherine Clément
- Ira Cohen
- Brett Despotovich
- John Dunbar
- Sophie Duplaix
- Marianne Faithfull
- John Geiger
- John Giorno
- Rhodri Hayward
- Michael Innanen
- Jean-Jacques Lebel
- Leila Hadley Luce
- Richard Metzger
- Bastiaan Ter Meulen
- Madame Odillard
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Katherine Piro
- Lee Ranaldo
- Ira Silverberg
- DJ Spooky
- Iggy Pop
- Psychic TV
- Floria Sigismondi
- Terry Wilson
- Nick Zinner
- associate producer
- Christina Clarke
- Brian Cullman
- Leslie Valpy
- additional cinematography
- Naomi Wise
- Bongo
- animation
- Tom Hillman
- Jaime Torres
- effects editing
- Richard Vandentillaart
- online editor
- Pietro Gallo
- sound recording
- Brett Despotovich
- Jason Milligan
- Hartley Wynberg
- sound editing
- Mark Gingras
- John Laing
- Dale Lennon
- sound design
- Mark Gingras
- John Laing
- Dale Lennon
- Daniel Pellerin
- re-recording
- Daniel Pellerin
- visual research
- Kristina Howard
- music clearances
- Elizabeth Klinck
- assistant editor
- Paul Hasick
- Leanne Young
- Ryan Noth
- production accountant
- Sam Simpson
- production coordinator
- Ashley Lannigan
- Christine Kleckner
- Corinne Herman
- production assistant
- Brett Despotovich
- Katherine Piro
- Jacob Engel
- Sabreena Peters
- creative consultant
- Ben Schaub
- fixer
- Alain Couture
- "Magic" Thierry Chompré
- off-line editing
- CeLL Productions
- online editing
- Imarion
- animation house
- Ghost FX
- re-recording facility
- Urban Post Production Inc.
- technical support
- Richard Vandentillaart
- stills photography
- Nik Sheehan
- graphic design
- Mark Lambert
- interim financing
- National Bank of Canada
- legal
- Hall and Webber LLP
- insurance
- Jones Brown Inc.
- production supervisor
- Mark Wilson