Presented by ACMI and Harvard Film Archive
The Trip
Tickets
| Full | $20 |
|---|---|
| Concession | $16 |
| Member | $14 |
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Independent film pioneer Roger Corman’s The Trip marks one of the earlier forays into psychedelic narrative filmmaking.
Written by Jack Nicholson and featuring the likes of Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg and Dennis Hopper, The Trip carries audiences through the psychedelic journey of finding oneself through chemically aided introspection.
Corman reportedly took LSD himself to prepare for the making of this film, and he used his experiences to cinematically simulate the moods, sounds and visions felt on the drug. With artful shots, trippy visual sequences, groovy settings and innovative camera movements, Corman was widely known for making shoestring-budget cult films that leave lasting impressions on viewers and the box office.
As one of American International Pictures’ most successful releases, The Trip cost around $100,000 to make and grossed a whopping $6 million during its initial run. Released during the ‘Summer of Love’, The Trip was not only inspired by psychedelia but also made its own cultural reverberations and generated a new wave of drug-induced Hollywood films to follow.
– Harvard Film Archive
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Graham St John, author of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, moderated by Fiona Patten.
Event duration
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Schedule
2pm Welcome & introduction
2.12pm Screening
3.33pm Discussion: Graham St John & Fiona Patten
3.53pm Book sales and signing
Book Sales & Signing
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
Published in Oct 2025 by MIT Press (with a foreword by Erik Davis) and described in Publishers Weekly as "a captivatingly humanizing" account that is "as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject," Strange Attractor is a comprehensive chronicle of the life, work, and legacy of the 20th century’s psychedelic renaissance man.
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