A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey set off on a LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair. He was joined by The Merry Band of Pranksters, a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's On the Road, and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was... never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen...until now. [show more]
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Stanley Tucci narrates this documentary account of counter-culture pioneer Ken Kesey's 1960s trip across America in a psychedelically painted school bus. In 1964 Kesey, the author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and an advocate for the use of LSD since the time he volunteered to take part in a project studying the effects of the psychoactive drug, decided to travel across country to New York to fulfil a business engagement. Buying an old school bus they named 'Further', Kesey and his group of friends, known as 'The Merry Pranksters', embarked on a cross-country acid-fuelled road trip in an attempt to create art out of everyday life.
In 1964 Ken Kesey the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set off on a legendary LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair – a trip made famous in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” Kesey was joined on his Magic Bus by “The Merry Band of Pranksters” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers that included Neal Cassady the Beat Generation icon immortalised in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” This trip ignited the beginning of the 1960s psychedelic revolution Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip shooting footage on 16MM but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen With MAGIC TRIP Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Gonzo The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson) and Alison Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family They restored over 100 hours of film and audiotape and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history Extras11 Deleted scenesAudio Commentary with Directors Alex Gibney and Alison EllwoodAudio Clip of Ken Kesey Being Administered LSDExclusive Alex Gibney InterviewTV spotsPromoTrailer“Tempo Stimulants” (1967) – rare ABC feature on LSD
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