Cooking the Cosmic Soup: Vincent Moon's Altered States of Live Cinema
Deleuze and Guattari Studies October 27, 2023 Amir Vudka 1 citation
Vincent Moon's films and live cinema performances are described as 'psychedelic' because they open perception to invisible realms of percepts, affects, and durations beyond ordinary human experience. Drawing on Paul Schrader's concept of the transcendental style in film and Gilles Deleuze's time-image, Moon, an audiovisual ethnographer of world religions influenced by shamanic and animistic traditions, brings the transcendental style back to its plane of immanence. His live cinema has a ritualistic and ecstatic aspect recalling the esoteric history of haunted media, inducing altered states of mind, tapping into spiritual realities, and immersing audiences in magic.