John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Dir. Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens | USA | 89 min | DCP | Midwest Premiere
What do dolphins, LSD, NASA, and a government agency that may or may not exist have in common? Welcome to the mind of John C. Lilly—a brilliant neuroscientist turned interspecies mystic who believed he could communicate with dolphins, reprogram human consciousness, and maybe even get directions from the universe itself.
Narrated by Chloë Sevigny, this kaleidoscopic essay film from Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter) and Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme) dives into the life and mind-melt of one of the 20th century’s most radical thinkers. Fueled by psychedelics, Cold War paranoia, and a very real sense of cosmic wonder, Lilly’s journey plays like a cross between MK-Ultra paranoia and a Philip K. Dick fever dream, equal parts utopian, delusional, and divine.
Part psychonaut scrapbook, part archival fever dream, John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office is a mind-bending inquiry into the mysteries of the self and the cosmos.

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