The rare documentary that jumps beyond informative and entertaining into the realm of mind-expanding, FLicKeR blends revelatory biography, energizing philosophy, and seductive trances.

-- Michael Fox in the San Francisco Weekly
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FlicKeR is steadfast in its belief that Gysin is influential... a variety of academics use Gysin as a gateway to discussions of everything from the changing nature of terrorism to iPods... [FLicKeR] energizes his enigma.

-- Johnny Ray Huston, San Francisco Bay Guardian
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The impressive parade of counter cultural talking heads put forth a cumulative defense of Gysin as a creative force in his own right, whose talents and insights extend far beyond Burroughs' long shadow.

-- Matt Sussman in SF360
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Udo Breger writes from Basel Switzerland excited about the San Francisco premiere this coming Thursday. He has invited Vale of RE/Search, who is coming to the screening. This is good news, because it was the now famous Burroughs/Throbbing Gristle/Brion Gysin issue of RE/Search back in 1982 that first introduced me to Brion Gysin, the dream machine and Genesis P-Orridge, three superstars of FLicKeR.

I am keen to blog FLicKeR, but most of all, need a FLicKeR to blog.
I landed with a high-end boutique distributor by the weird serendipity that has always marked this film, fucked over by the NFB in the gentle way that is governmental in a system that is the best humans ever came up with, sort of: Canada.
It's all about Control Systems, you can bet everything on that.
Then there are those of you who are familiar with the
Cut Ups.
Elizabeth has asked me to tell you how this all came about. She has this idea I should blog my film and therefore help sell it for her company. I thought, are you nuts, I'm gonna give it up for FREE?
Yeah, and that is the way of FLicKeR.
And that's so Brion Gysin, because while the Beats were all about a new word order, he couldn't help but want to be paid - because most of the time, he was close to starving. Money validates art, there's no denying it.
Yet the magic transcends the corporeal.
Sweet how that works.

Next: Udo Breger

In my case it did. As the dreamachine is on the interface between science and the arts, it drew me out of the determined world of knowledge (through consciousness) into the dynamic world of experience (preceding any form of consciousness), a transition from a sometimes rather small horizon towards the genuine borders of being; not only the Beats, but also Genesis-P or Iggy have been and still are an inspiration this way to open up the metaphorical “reduction valve of the mind”1.

– Bastiaan C. ter Meulen, neurologist, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1 Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception

FLicKeR is about shamanic transcendentalists who practice esoteric magic, using art and literature as their cover.  It's about their energy and excitement and fierce intelligence. 

Some of you will think that FLicKeR is all about a Dream Machine.  That's okay.

As John Geiger keeps trying to tell people, FLicKeR is a film of staggering subversion.

See for yourself.

FLicKeR premiered 23 April 2008 at the Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto.  It met with universal praise, rave reviews and won the Special Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature Documentary.

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