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Whoa, look at those penguins! CNN? Sure, why not? But the greatest trippy movies make you feel stoned even when you're not stoned and make you think about life even when your brain is turned off.

The resulting films, collected here as the "Psychedelic Cinema" program, stand today as an amazing window on another time. Swirling colors and lights, clip art animations, cinéma vérité images ...