It stars Hobbs, Richard Faun, Morgan Upton, Nate Thurmond, Gloria Rossi, and members of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hobbs conceived the plot after working with the filmmakers Ron Bostwick and Robert Blaisdell on the short film Trojan Horse.

The film is largely unavailable to the general public; during his lifetime Hobbs blocked Troika releases on home video as he was unhappy with the final print.

In 2022, a copy restored by Glasgow's Matchbox Cine with the permission of Hobbs' family was screened at the Weird Weekend Cult Film Festival.

The scene then transitions to a series of encounters between Hobbs and the Hollywood producer Gordon Goodloins (Richard Faun) as the former attempts to convince him to invest in a proposed art film titled Troika.

[4][3] In this segment, a chef wearing ritualistic face paint begins making an alchemical and culinary brew in a large pot, into which he throws items such as medals and emblems.

In the classroom, students covered in white face paint rest on toilet seats and chaise longues while college professors lecture them on different topics.

Rax staggers onto a beach where he collapses and convulses in pain as an orange colored woman (Rossi) emerges from the ocean, pushing a large sculpture.

The shot cuts to a seemingly rejuvenated Rax entering an icy cave where he meets a seven-foot-tall shaman known as the Attenuated Man (Nate Thurmond).

[14][15] During the collaboration, he became fascinated with film as an art form and began to develop the concept for Troika, which he described as a "modern miracle play – but not underground".

For the "Alma Mater" segment, shot in the narrative style of an expressionist documentary film, Hobbs reportedly took his inspiration from the Kent State riots,[3] in 1967 and April 1969.

[23] The San Francisco-based basketball player Nate Thurmond appears as the mystical "Attenuated Man" in the final segment;[4][3] one writer described the character as a Christ-like figure.

[4][3] Members of the San Francisco Art Institute were hired for several roles, including the blue and purple people and the students in the "Alma Mater" scene.

The scene was filmed at Fort Cronkhite, but was abandoned when the army fired Nike Hercules missiles during an exercise, ruining the shot.

[20] He and Meuller co-produced the soundtrack, generating sounds that Thrower described as echoing the avant-garde composer La Monte Young.

[20][30] It was screened at the Granada Theater in Wilmington, California on November 28,[28] receiving doubling-billing alongside John Perry's short film Dandelion (1969).

[36][37][38] In later years, Hobbs repeatedly blocked its release on home video as he was dissatisfied with the quality of the print and was holding out to finish an edit ultimately never completed.

In 1969, Howard Thompson of The New York Times praised its unconventional plot, describing it as a "cluttered and disconnected collage of art objects, paintings, live-action fantasy and symbolism".

[46] The film was generally well-received, especially for its cinematography, but Cue magazine described it as "grotesque", dismissing its visual style as self-indulgent and "devoid of talent".

[47] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the narrative was original but incoherent, and the comedic elements were too heavy-handed to be funny.