Watch Billy Corgan’s Psychedelic Silent Film ‘Pillbox’
Billy Corgan unveiled a kaleidoscopic 40-minute silent film, Pillbox, featuring music from his new solo album, Ogilala. Corgan wrote the film and directed it alongside longtime collaborator Linda Strawberry.
Pillbox tells the story of a couple who are forced to part when the man heads overseas to war. The opening sequence boasts the simple black-and-white aesthetic of early cinema – complete with title cards – but after a barrage of harrowing newsreel footage, the wounded soldier finds himself in a psychedelic fantasyland where he parties with a bejeweled king and his subjects….
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