Name: Altered States
Start: 2026-03-01T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-03-01T20:56:00-08:00
Location: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

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This event is in the past.It took place on March 1, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

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Horror Film

Altered States

March 1 at 7pm

At Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley

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🎬"dazzlingly, dizzyingly divided against itself" (Jessica Kiang)

🎞️Preceded by rare 1968 short Primordium with Ravi Shankar score

🧪Inspired by real John Lilly sensory deprivation experiments

Ken Russell's 1980 psychedelic freakout sends a scientist spiraling through primordial consciousness in an isolation tank. Think Jekyll and Hyde meets actual hallucinatory slime transformation, all on glorious 35mm.

Psychedelic sci-fi

35mm screening

Experimental cinema

Mind-bending visuals

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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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