The Substance
2011Albert Hoffmann’s LSD (Koproduktion) Documentary from Martin Wirz. Ventura Film in coproduction with RSI, Teleclub, Lichtblick Filmproduktion and Spotlight Media Productions AG
In 1943, the year in which the first A-bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A-bomb of the mind. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug – its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists.
