Peyote Queen

Peyote Queen (1965)

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

Date of release
1965-12-04
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (11)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation
Director
Storm De Hirsch
Collection
The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought

Interesting facts

Peyote Queen is an experimental short film by Storm de Hirsch, produced in 1965.

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