Peyote Queen (1965)
Peyote Queen (1965)
Plot.
Peyote Queen opens with black-and-white perforations that pulsate to the beat of drumming and escalate to light-bathed split screens and kaleidoscopic effects. Switching to lively organ accompaniment, the film pours out a stream of simple scratchings that rollick across the screen. Fish, breasts, flowers, boats, water, lips, hearts, stars—the hieroglyphs explode with color and celebrate the female creative force. The surge slows with the return of ritual drumming, this time with chanting, and a self-reflective coda. -- National Film Preservation Foundation
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Details.
Release DateDecember 4, 1965
StatusReleased
Running Time9m
Wiki.
Peyote Queen is an experimental short film by Storm de Hirsch, produced in 1965.
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