Belgian-French writer and artist Henri Michaux (1899−1984) is best known for his surreal travel stories through real and fictional lands. In addition, many of Michaux’s artworks, which are usually referred to as ‘art informel’ and ‘lyrical abstraction’, have been marked by psychedelic experiments with hashish and mescaline since the 1950s. This is also the case in the short film Images du monde visionnaire, which Michaux made in 1963 in collaboration with French filmmaker Éric Duvivier for the pharmaceutical company Sandoz, which in those years conducted research in the field of psychotropic drugs but also supported a veritable ‘cinémathèque de Sandoz’. Images du monde visionnaire attempts to translate the effects of psychotropic drugs into moving images. (Art Cinema OFFoff)
