John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
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.
Directors: Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens.
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Chloë Sevigny as Narrator (voice) |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky as Self |
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Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Timothy Leary as Self (archive footage) |
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Scott McVay as Self |
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Hella McVay as Self |
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Diana Reiss as Self |
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Gigi Coyle as Self |
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John Cunningham Lilly as Himself (archive footage) |
| Directing | Michael Almereyda | Director |
| Directing | Courtney Stephens | Director |
| Writing | Michael Almereyda | Writer |
| Writing | Courtney Stephens | Writer |
| Camera | Nellie Klux | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Rafael Palacio Illingworth | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Norbert Shieh | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Courtney Stephens | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Pacho Velez | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Courtney Stephens | Editor |
| Editing | Iva Radivojević | Editor |
| Editing | Max Bowens | Editor |
| Sound | Brian McOmber | Music |
| Production | Taylor Hess | Producer |
| Production | Jesse Miller | Producer |