Cool Memories of Remote Gods

Set in the remnants of hippie trails in India the film draws from the history of 1960s counterculture groups and their appropriation of spiritual ideas as a phenomenon contemporaneous with the development of the personal computer and cybernetics No longer as active as they once were these trails still bear the signs of the technofictionaloverlaid with ancient spiritual regimens As computers proposed that machine activity could replace the mind counterculture considered whether religious or mystical experience could be recreated through technical means as customisable internal technologies This decay of the Empire of Equilibriumthe onceaspiredto state of universal harmonyexemplified by psychedelic posters cheap reworks of surrealist paintings and local mixes of religiotechnofusion music forms the central audiovisual schematic of the project