Sundance Adds 3 New Features Including a Feature-Length Acid Trip

The Sundance Film Festival has announced three late additions to its lineup, and they all sound pretty exciting, especially Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s documentary Magic Trip. Apparently in the 60’s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Author Ken Kesey and friends took an LSD-fueled road trip to the New York World’s Fair and filmed the entire thing. Ellwood and Gibney have assembled this footage, along with photos and audio recordings into, I presume, something coherent. It could be hilarious, enlightening or really stupid, but I personally can’t wait to find out which. The rest of the announcement includes new work from Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone we Know) and Ashley Judd. Read on for the full synopses.

Flypaper / U.S.A. (Director: Rob Minkoff; Screenwriters: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) - When two gangs try to rob the same bank at the same time, a clever hostage in the middle must save the day. Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Mekhi Phifer, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Blake Nelson, Pruitt Taylor Vince.

The Future / Germany, U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Miranda July) - When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves. Cast: Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres, Joe Putterlik.

Magic Trip / U.S.A. (Directors: Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney) - In 1964 Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and his band of Merry Pranksters set out on a cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. Fueled by large doses of LSD, they filmed the entire journey. Forty-plus years later, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and co-director Alison Ellwood use that footage, audio recordings and photographs to create an immersion experience of the legendary trip.

[Sundance Film Festival]

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