FANTASTIC PLANET w/ Live Music by The Empyreans!

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel La planète sauvage, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

The Empyreans is an evolving ambient ensemble founded in 2022 by multi-instrumentalist and performance artist Craig Douglas. Conceived as a gathering place for like-minded ambient musicians, experimentalists, and sonic explorers, the project was originally created to perform live scores over obscure and…