A Bicycle Trip
Basel, 19 April 1943. Dr Albert Hofmann, a chemist, is cycling home after a day’s work in the laboratory. This episode has passed into legend, associated with the discovery of the effects on the human psyche of LSD.
A Bicycle Trip is the amazing short film by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and Marco Avoletta, three students of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Sound Design: Thomas Giorgi. Music: O’zittre nicht mein lieber sohn from W.A.Mozart’s The Magic Flute, re-elaborated by Roberto Boarini.
Also tagged Albert Hofmann, bike, bugs, cats, Die Zauberflöte, drugs, eyeglasses, Italia, Lorenzo Veracini, Marco Avoletta, Moebius strip, mouse, Mozart, Nandini Nambiar, psychedelia, Roberto Boarini, sky, testlab, Thomas Giorgi, thru the mirror, trees
