Electronic Awakening

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Electronic Awakening
Film poster
Directed by	A.C. Johner
Produced by	A.C. Johner
Production companies	Federation of Earth and Keyframe-Entertainment
Release date	October 2, 2011 (2011-10-02)[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

Electronic Awakening is a 2011 American documentary film which investigates the spiritual history of electronic music culture. Told from an ethnographic perspective, the film explores the international Electronic Dance Music (EDM) phenomenon as the re-emergence of shamanic ritual.^[2] In addition to interviewing people whose lives were changed by the claimed transcendent experiences on the dancefloor, anthropologist and film’s creator AC Johner ^[3] ponders the cause of this mind-altering effect and suggests that the repetitive, mathematically perfect rhythms and oscillations of EDM have the power to create a communal hive mind. The electronic beatscape propelled by the emergence in the late 1980s and early 1990s of something new and freshly synched.^[4] The primary emphasis of the documentary is the deeply spiritual basis of the cultures and practices that have developed around these parties, particularly trance music and the possibilities this spirituality might offer for ravers and the world in general.^[5] It is one of the first full-length documentaries to uncover the spiritual and transformational elements of EDM culture as a central theme.^[6]