Peyote Queen

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Animation

Overview

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

Details

Status: Released
Release date: December 4, 1965
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America
Director: Storm De Hirsch
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt1710440