Wednesday, October 26th at 7pm

Mindshare LA is Proud to Present:

A Screening of Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

** Drinks Specials 7-8pm | Screening 8-9:30pm | Drinks 9:30-11pm **

The Little Cart will be serving up delicious treats from 6:45pm onward.

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Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s MAGIC TRIP is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. The real life footage of what inspired the novel The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, and Gus van Sant's film by the same title, has laid dormant - until now.

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. 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.

(Watch the trailer here...)

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, Gibney and Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history.

Alex Gibney won an Academy Award for  Taxi to the Dark Side, his 2007 documentary about American uses of torture during interrogation. Allison Ellwood is a film editor who has worked with him on several projects, including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

"Like a hipster’s King Tut’s tomb. Fans will find this reconstruction indispensable."

--Variety

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