Night scenes of a distant and silent Havana. Anonymous voices tell us about places they would like to visit and come back, places they would like to know and never forget. They tell us about the transition moment in which they coexist, a state sketched in the traveler as a building facade cut by the light of the street lamps at night. Impressions of Andrea Novoa’s state of trance, a flaneur, who experiences the mental space that appears when crossing corners and streets of a foreign city, suspended in the time.

Embark on a journey into the mind with this captivating fusion of hypnotic imagery and the best in trance music. Colorful, abstract graphics serve as the visual counterpart to the sounds of popular trance artists such as Yahel and Scorched Earth. Others on the lineup include Psycoheads, Ray Boyé, Massey, Threesome, Hardy Heller, Jaimy & Kenny D and more.

Malena is the first transsexual girl of the small island of Apipé, located opposite the powerful hydroelectric plant of Yaciretá. Between them, rocks the river. And tales about the origin of the Earth. Sailing between different stories about the island and the plant, Yasirée Trance invites us to create a new mutant cosmogony. Together with Malena, the film declares itself as transgender, and questions different possible narratives seeking its own mythology.

This lost classic, shot on 16mm in a wintry Berlin in 1993, explores the origins of the German trance scene. Featuring interviews with fresh-faced selectors including Laurent Garnier and MFS Records founder Mark Reeder, the documentary also feature footage from the city's iconic Love Parades in 1991 and 1993.

At the age of 20 I became a war reporter, self-exiled in the no-man’s land between Lebanon and Israel. There, I discovered a generation of young Middle Easterners who found refuge in rave parties. They were fleeing the trauma of war. I was running from something else. Through transcendence and the feeling of being alive, our therapy was collective.

This film is made with personal and public archive footage. The project is an evocation to the transpersonal memory, a tool to appeal to images and views that are organically overlap. The image layers fused frames together in a mesh, a porous unity, the editing of a new singular body of images. An internal pulse, a vital beat becoming image and sound. A babbling mantra –the projector mechanical sound-, the movement of the cars, the atmosphere and the people create an image score. This orphan-film, found-footage, personal register is taken out of its original context and taken into an artistic discourse so as to create a new narrative thanks to the deconstruction and the addition of images. The original footage was reinterpreted in a new visual story: an expanded cinema projection. Trance was born as a video installation composed by three projections projected simultanously.

Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separate stories about dreams and loves of twentysomethings.

Documentary about the Moroccan musical group Nass El Ghiwane.

Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali. The famous Kris Dance is performed.

Some researchers have found how hypnosis can allow us access to hidden memories, help us overcome phobias and can be used to manage pain. It can even be used to retrieve lost memories from purported past lives and alien abductions. The results are intriguing, if not controversial. Some are humorous while others have lead to tragic consequences. In this program, we will explore the history, beliefs and the research on hypnosis to see if it can tell us about our limitations and our possibilities.

These are the dancing bodies in an agitated rapture: prelude to trance, invocation of the gods, consecration of intermittence. Here our point of view sparkles under the spell and trance of things gathered, fallen, yielding, pluvial, Mesoamerican wind, goddess breath, breeze of sticks. percussive woods. Here the audiovisual diagram that guides us, the kinetic breath that inspires us, the serpentine spear that snatches us away, the agitated plumes that trembles at us are the sound and rumbble of Teponaztli, a Mesoamerican percussive instrument: serpentine, dancing, bouncing sticks, trunks, branches and wood. Kinetic and audiovisual serialism from the embers of the Earth. This is the Earth in a Trance.

More mood tapey glow fun from Japan.

A contemplation on night travelling in various weather conditions through seemingly endless landscapes in Europe, only briefly disrupted by shreds of conversation in a foreign language.

A couple is invited to live an experience in an old mansion.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.

Bringing offerings of rice, flowers, and woven coconut leaves, clients visit Jero in her household shrine to determine the cause of their son's death. Jero lights an incense brazier, sprinkles holy water, and recites mantras as preliminaries to trance. Several ancestors and finally the young son speak through her voice, revealing the nature of his premature death (witchcraft) and his wishes for cremation. In contrast to other films about Balinese trance which focus on spectacular, community performances, this film provides an intimate view of a fascinating process of communication between Jero, the spirits, and her clients who are at one point moved to tears. (der.org)

The Gnawa people have been shrouded in mystery since they were exiled from the Malian empire and brought as slaves to Morocco in the 16th century. In the last two decades, the power of their trance music has come into the spotlight thanks to Western musicians. Led Zeppelin, Archie Shepp, among others, have been fascinated by the mystical dimension of the music and its role in the rise of the blues. In this captivating documentary, filmmakers Bella Le Nestour and John Allen paint an intimate portrait of two men -- Sibiri Samaké, a Bambarra musician from Mali, and Brahim El Belkani, a Gnawa musician from Morocco -- who are seen during their historic meeting in 2000. In Arabic, wijdan means 'the meeting of souls.' We are privileged to watch as these masters of the supernatural trace their common roots back in time and as they impart their secret knowledge to the younger generation.

Practiced in Java for centuries, Jathilan is a folk dance that uses the power of music and dance to channel powerful and sometimes terrifying forces. Led by a spiritual guide and a whip-bearing ringleader, a group of dancers ride woven horses in rhythmic unison until they are entered by spirits. Once possessed they engage in a range of self-mortification behaviors until safely emerging from their altered state, left with no memory of the event and no lingering ill effects. The film combines footage of a number of Jathilan performances with interviews with dancers, spiritual leaders, anthropologists, and enthusiasts.