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The 9th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris


October 5th - 16th 2011
Cinéma La Clef
Institut Finlandais
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International Competition
Documentaries
# 2
October 5th, 2011 / 8.30 pm
Fondation Suisse
Cité Universitaire / Paris


Substance
Charcoal


Martin Witz

Switzerland
2011 | Numerique | 1:29:00

In 1943 the chemist Albert Hofmann stumbled on to a hitherto unknown substance in his Basel laboratory. After an experiment on himself he realized he had discovered an extremely potent agent that radically changes human perception. During the fifties psychiatrists started using the new substance, LSD, as a medication. In the sixties this “atomic bomb of the mind” started to wreak real havoc when it was used outside the clinics. LSD seemed to be tailor made for society’s dropouts. Then in the seventies LSD was put on a blacklist. Today such psychedelic drugs are being used legally again for the first time. Will LSD perhaps become a remedy once again just as Albert Hofmann always envisioned it?

 



 
Extrait:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1LmU6vmLh4
Film :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY1ApUVXb1k&feature=related
Interview 1 :
http://www.tsr.ch/video/emissions/tapage-nocturne/3318562-interview-de-martin-witz-pour-son-film-en-competition-the-substance-albert-hofmann-s-lsd.html
Interview 2 mit Dieter Wieczorek :
http://www.schnitt.de/233,6946,01
Interview 3 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uSVaUk8WTc

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October 5th - 16th 2011

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.


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