Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriters**: Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens **Producers**: Taylor Hess, Jesse Miller, Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens Filmmaker **Courtney Stephens** in person Saturday – with a Q+A after the 4:30pm show and an introduction before the 7:30pm show! The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russell’s *Altered States* and Mike Nichols’s *The Day of the Dolphin*. Directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown. “An illuminating work of cultural archaeology” “*Earth Coincidence* paints Lilly as a 20th-century polymath, a one-of-a-kind maverick“ —THE FILM STAGE