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Harry Everett Smith's Early Abstractions is a film series combining illustration, Surrealism, Dadaist nonsense, animation, and mystical imagery from Buddha to Baphomet and everything between for a trippy treatment of the universal innerspace. Whoa... far out, man....
Aligned with the Beat movement and predating the 60s' hippies, Harry Everett Smith was a pioneering experimental filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and spiritualist, whose themes are comparable to the work of his contemporary and fellow magician, Kenneth Anger. Despite a life of relative obscurity and poverty, Smith made a vital contribution to American underground filmmaking, and attained posthumous renown when Early Abstractions was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation due to its cultural and historical importance.
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