“My eyes are cast down in awe.”
German director Helmut Herbst’s utterly insane THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals in 1972 who set adrift in space inside a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Various interstellar flotsam smashes into the windshield – enormous insects, Mighty Mouse, a Bird Man from FLASH GORDON – while hypnotic krautrock drones in the background moaning “Where am I??” and a naked man bounces up and down off a massive red pepper.