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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)

Documentary
Release Date: 2025, January 31
Directors: Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens
Countries: United States of America
Production: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Scott McVay, Hella McVay, Diana Reiss, Gigi Coyle

Overview:

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 Almareyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.

Keywords:

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