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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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OPENING FILM

October 5th, 2011 / 8.30 pm
Fondation Suisse
Cité Universitaire / Paris

 

The Substance


The Substance
Martin Witz
Switzerland
2010 | Digital | 0:16:00

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? * French Premier

 

FRENCH PREMIERE

Links:
Interview with Martin Witz by Dieter Wieczorek:
http://www.schnitt.de/233,6946,01

Extrait:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1LmU6vmLh4

Interview at Locarno 2011:
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


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