

Looking for Mushrooms
LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959-1967) is a psychedelic travelogue film that documents a series of “trips” through rural Mexico and urban America. Conner combined street views of San Francisco shot in the late 1950s with scenes of rural Oaxaca captured during his “mushroom-hunting” excursions between 1961 and 1962, when Bruce and his wife, Jean, were living in Mexico City. On at least one of these trips, the Conners were joined by Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard professor and soon-to-be leading proponent of psychedelic drugs. In 1996, Conner revised the film once again: he used an optical printer to expand its length from three to fourteen-and-a-half-minutes, and added a new soundtrack, Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," to create a more meditative, but no less hypnotizing, iteration of the mushroom hunt.
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Release dates
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- Theatrical1 Jan 1996
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- When was Looking for Mushrooms released?
- Looking for Mushrooms was released on 1 January 1996.
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- What is the rating of Looking for Mushrooms?
- Looking for Mushrooms holds a 6.9/10 audience score from 8 votes.
- Who directed Looking for Mushrooms?
- Looking for Mushrooms (1996) was directed by Bruce Conner.
- How long is Looking for Mushrooms?
- Looking for Mushrooms runs for 15m.











