Indie Memphis screening: JOHN LILLY & THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE
🎬 Our Summer Screening Series at Malco Studio on the Square concludes with the fascinating documentary JOHN LILLY & THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE.
SYNOPSIS:
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 Almereyda (Indie Memphis alum) and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.
📍 Studio on the Square
📅 Wednesday, August 5th
🕖 7:00 PM
🎟 Tickets: $12
