John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Directed by Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens
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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Chloë SevignyNarrator (voice)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Allen GinsbergSelf (archive footage)
Timothy LearySelf (archive footage)
Scott McVaySelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Michael Almereyda
- Director
- Courtney Stephens
- Writer
- Michael Almereyda
- Writer
- Courtney Stephens
- Director of Photography
- Nellie Klux
- Director of Photography
- Rafael Palacio Illingworth
- Director of Photography
- Norbert Shieh
- Director of Photography
- Courtney Stephens
- Director of Photography
- Pacho Velez
- Editor
- Courtney Stephens
- Editor
- Iva Radivojević
- Editor
- Max Bowens
- Producer
- Taylor Hess
- Producer
- Jesse Miller