At a time when the American psychedelic band Animal Collective were enjoying huge success with the 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion (voted Album of the Year by Spin, Entertainment Weekly and Pitchfork, and topping critics’ end-of-year lists worldwide), the musicians announced that their next project would be a "visual album”, a tight network of sound and image which was ultimately four years in the making. Directed by Danny Perez and first shown at Sundance 2010, the film is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements which defies conventional narrative to ensure a visceral, immersive experience. ODDSAC presents Animal Collective as ambassadors of a modern scene who abandoned the technological world of markets, bids and virtual delights and, returning to nature, arrived at a new form of shamanism. The psychedelic experience here confronts the archeology of media, the subversion of consumer society and new spirituality with absurd humour.