Looking for Mushrooms (1967)
Audience Score
3 minNov 29th, 1967
During his year in Mexico Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary who he had met on an earlier visit to New York Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside Its not clear whether their hunts were successful But Conners staccato homemovies of their walks combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco became his film Looking for Mushrooms The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard Not to be confused with Conners reedited 1996 version of Looking for Mushroom
DirectorBruce Conner
