Pat Tremblay • Films • Heads of Control : The Gorul Baheu Brain Expedition (2006)

Heads of Control: The Gorul Baheu Brain Expedition (2006)

Produced, written, directed, edited & visual effects by Pat Tremblay

GENRE:

Experimental psychedelic surreal satire

SYNOPSIS:

Max Bawder is a very, very, troubled man. He is affected with Dissociative Identity Disorder syndrome. Assuming the perspective of a drug injected into Max's brain, a quest ensues to find the source of the problem.

Shot principally with non-actors that answered a newspaper ad, they were given free reign by director Pat Tremblay to act out any hidden side of their personality, as long as it was done in front of 3 cameras and a blue screen. The result was then manipulated into the film's storyline and transformed into a modern day psychedelic experimental comedic sci-fi journey. Or something like that.

93 mins

TRAILERS (ENGLISH)

FULL SCENE

TRAILERS (FRENCH)

PICTURES

FESTIVALS

Festival of New Cinema • Canada (October 24th & 25th 2006)

31rst Cine-Video Psy film Festival • Lorquin, France (June 14th 2007)
(organized by the National Audio-Visual Documentation Center for Mental Health)

Brazilian Fantastic Film Festival RIOFAN • Brazil (May 2nd 2008)

REVIEWS

“Reactions to this lo-fi, bilingual local production will range from fascinated to exasperated, but one thing’s for certain—psychedelic cinema is alive and well. Pat Tremblay’s digital dilemma involves a psychiatric drug, anthropomorphized as a pair of masked weirdniks, injected into the brain of a messed-up dude. The duo’s “quest” is punctuated by a series of encounters with disconcerting freaks and oddballs—their host’s alternate personalities?—whose rants and antics are no more enlightening than the freaky, pseudo-scientific chatter bookending these episodes. No matter, though. Tremblay’s nutty gambit was to capture an assortment of real-life strangers, lured by a newspaper ad, as they improvised freakouts for him, then green-screen them onto hallucinatory backdrops of ocular oddness. The results prompt more questions than answers, but mostly provoke giggles of demented delight at the hyped-up, harebrained madness of it all.“

Ruppert Bottenberg, Montreal Mirror

"A psychedelic romp through the forest of the unconscious.
No one should pass up the experience of stepping through the portals
of this mind-expanding movie into fantastic new worlds of mind, sight, and sound."

Dr. Cliff Pickover, author of "Strange Brains and Genius"