The Cathedral of New Emotions

On a shortlist with BELLADONNA OF SADNESS and FANTASTIC PLANET as one of the most surreal, psychedelic, and truly cosmic animated features ever made, German director Helmut Herbst’s utterly insane THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals in 1972 who set adrift in space inside a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Various interstellar flotsam smashes into the windshield – enormous insects, Mighty Mouse, a Bird Man from FLASH GORDON – while hypnotic krautrock drones in the background moaning “Where am I??” and a naked man bounces up and down off a massive red pepper. Newly Restored and available for the first time in the US.