ACIDIC VIDEO MOVIE CLUB | Fantastic Planet (1973)

Kicking off Field Trip’s Acidic Video Movie Club is a film as fitting of the Acidic name as any. To call René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) a trip is to undersell a landmark achievement in adult oriented animation and a singular masterpiece of an era marked by dreams of life in distant galaxies, and the fight for social upheaval on Earth. Laloux and writer Roland Topor’s vision is stark, arresting and genuinely alien. It’s also a total trip.