In-Person DIRECTOR Q&A

We Luv Video Is proud to present The Dirt Road To Psychedelia, a documentary about Austin's emerging psych and counter-culture scene in the 1960s directed by local independent filmmaker Scott Conn. The film originally premiered at the Dolbie theatre in 2008. This screening will feature a Q&A with the director and a screening of his 1991 experimental punk rock vampire horror short HER DOG SATAN, which stars several Austin luminaries.

The Dirt Road To Psychedelia -Feature documentary 72min. (2008) A folk singing Janis Joplin, the 13th Floor Elevators, peyote, LSD and the first psychedelic music venue in Texas, Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter-culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists, Beatnik inspired students were drawn together by folk, country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and later exploring with LSD. Traditional values became challenged as they sought a lifestyle outside of the system. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society, but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified!

This is how Austin became groovy.