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FestivalLUFF 2011 - Persistance #1
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Retour sur la 10e édition: entre hémorragie et larme, ou quand des yeux jaillissent des fluides. [more]
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Somewhere elseUn Bureau Culturel pour Lausanne et sa région
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Out of Sight: A tribute to Albert Hofmann
On the 29th of April this year the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann died at the age of 102 and his obituary was printed in every major newspaper, complete with picture. Such was the importance of the drug he synthesized 70 years ago: Lyserg-säure-diäthylamid in his native German, and lysergic acid diethylamide in English. Eventually it became known as simply LSD. To the military it was a potential weapon to control and destroy minds, but to the hippies of mid-60’s San Francisco it was the gateway to self-awareness and to the mysteries of the psyche, and it quickly assumed immense importance in the music, art and philosophy of the counter-culture.
This two-part tribute to Hofmann begins with a screening of the documentary Hofmann’s Potion, directed by Connie Littlefield in 2002. It continues with the American-made educational film; LSD-25, the corporate scare flick, Case Study: LSD and the underground ‘trip film’, Rockflow that illustrate how society was trying to cope with all the unknowns of this drug in 1967 and 1968 when it was just coming into widespread use and striking fear into the hearts of parents, police and social authorities – and how the youth were celebrating it. Hofmann’s Potion presents the factual and historical context and the other three films illustrate the mythologies that quickly grew up around the drug and convey the sense of uncertainty, panic and euphoria that was associated with it. In whole it is an informative and entertaining examination of the man and the mythology that flowed from his creation. Jack Stevenson
