documentaries

A history of the sometimes conflictual history of the relationship between magic mushrooms and mankind. From sacred fungus to party drug through medicinal uses, ancient and future.

A review of the scientific interest and research elicited by psychedelics since the appearance of LSD. Mass consumption made legislation turn prohibitive, but new pioneers are challenging the status quo.

A history of the sometimes conflictual history of the relationship between magic mushrooms and mankind. From sacred fungus to party drug through medicinal uses, ancient and future.

A review of the scientific interest and research elicited by psychedelics since the appearance of LSD. Mass consumption made legislation turn prohibitive, but new pioneers are challenging the status quo.

The active ingredient of and African rootbark is a radical remedy against addiction. Strangely, it is also illegal. Why wouldn’t the industry be interested in a simple and cheap medicine against this heavy burden on society?

A radio documentary about an unusual drug rehab centre in Peru that uses the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian medicine, as its main tool for detoxication.

Actor and psychonaut Piers Gibbon sets out for the rainforest to find a psychoactive plant. His quest for the shrub takes on epic aspects and swiftly turns into anxious introspection into his own personality.

The active ingredient of and African rootbark is a radical remedy against addiction. Strangely, it is also illegal. Why wouldn’t the industry be interested in a simple and cheap medicine against this heavy burden on society?

A radio documentary about an unusual drug rehab centre in Peru that uses the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian medicine, as its main tool for detoxication.

Actor and psychonaut Piers Gibbon sets out for the rainforest to find a psychoactive plant. His quest for the shrub takes on epic aspects and swiftly turns into anxious introspection into his own personality.

Anthropologist Jeremy Narby takes three molecular biologists to the Amazon in order to verify if ayahuasca visions really offer insights into the realm of infinitely small organisms. The answers they get are amazingly precise.

A reflection on the political aspects of the worldwide rise of interest into ayahuasca shamanism. Do we have the right to alter our consciousness? Why the war on drugs? What will become of the Amazon region with oil companies rushing in? And other disturbing questions.

Strangely sympathetic film commissioned by the NIMH about Tom, an archetypal hippie from back in the day. He likes psychoactive plants more than money and work, and explains what psychedelics have meant and still mean to him.

Insane experiments with extremely powerful mind-altering substances were carried out by the US Army and the CIA on unwitting human subjects. Drills on acid are fun to watch, but we also get to see traumatised privates struggling with nightmared decades after the fact.

Who knows better about LSD than LSD itself? The substance puports to bust myths and teach facts about itself, but governmental bias lurks behind every frame.

The Olson case, named after an army scientist who fell 10 storeys down to his death days after having been dosed with LSD by CIA operatives, is set out against a selection of drug scare fragments from the same period. Official stand and real life practice are slightly different.

The true dangers of LSD objectively and honestly exposed by government appointed doctors. Don’t believe anything else !

A radical experiment in pictures and sound, uncompromising stuff by underground filmmaker Clementi. When film and experience merge.

After the first copy of Lucifer Rising was stolen by one of the actors, several different versions saw the light under two different titles. Pretty metaphysical stuff anyway, it’s Kenneth Anger after all.