Sanctus and Other Shorts by David Lebrun

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Sanctus

U.S., 1966

Restoration premiere

Sanctus intercuts three Mexican rituals of parallel structure: the Catholic Mass, the bullfight and the sacred hallucinogenic mushroom ceremony of the Mazatec people. The Archive is thrilled to present this stunning new restoration overseen by Mark Toscano at the Academy Film Archive.

DCP, color, 20 min. Director: David Lebrun. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film

U.S., 1970

This film document of a light show performance by Peter Mays, Jeffrey Perkins, Michael Scroggins, Jon Greene, Larry Janss and Rol Murrow includes film footage by David Lebrun, Pat O’Neill and John Stehura — all made on UCLA printers and computers.

16mm, color, 5 min. Director: David Lebrun. Print courtesy of the Center for Visual Music.

Metamorphosis

U.S., 1968-2010

An animated dance of human-made forms from the Lower Paleolithic to the present, Metamorphosis was created in 16mm in 1968 for the Single Wing Turquoise Bird light show collective and digitally recreated and expanded between 2002-2010.

DCP, color, 14 min. Director: David Lebrun.

The Hog Farm Movie

U.S., 1970

The Hog Farm Movie opens with a shot of a towheaded kid snuggled, asleep in bed. What follows unfolds like a dream recorded while it was lived. David Lebrun’s time capsule of the counterculture captures a moment in 1968 when residents of the famed California hippie commune set off on a cross-country bus caravan to share their anarchic gospel. From their industrious preparations to their psychedelic performances on the road, the film abounds with the joyful, purposeful mayhem essential to the work of trying to “figure out a whole other way of doing it.”

DCP (from 16mm), color, 38 min. Director: David Lebrun.