The psychedelic road-movie crime comedy Contact High (2009) is Michael Glawogger’s most far-out film in an exceptionally flexible filmography, one that boasts fiction, documentary, and a clutch of too-rarely-seen experimental shorts. A contact high was also what one commonly experienced in Glawogger’s presence: his mischievous high-on-life energy was infectious and irresistible, his playful provocateur nature occasioning charm rather than outrage. His filmmaking was a gutsy, immersive study in extremis: he consistently pushed limits and challenged mainstream biases, explored new filmic forms and languages, zigzagged the world, and wandered into territory many would avoid at all costs, excavating startling human beauty and tenacious dignity amidst the most unexpected, disavowed, overlooked, and taboo subjects. All of his films are far out, in a sense. His fiction films needle at capacious, twisted, even…