Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers and their families, and the ambitious staff running the trial, who are hoping this controversial treatment will have the power to transform millions of lives.
“With deeply moving footage of the “trips” the patients experience, this intimate film is an absorbing portrait of the human cost of depression, and the inspirational people contributing to this unique psychedelic research.” - Filmuforia
“Magic Medicine has a lot to say about the human condition, and how the complex nature of depression can be approached.” - James Luxford, Radio Times
- Year2019
- Runtime79 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- Rating15
- DirectorMonty Wates
- CastRobin Carhart-Harris, Rosalind Watts
Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers and their families, and the ambitious staff running the trial, who are hoping this controversial treatment will have the power to transform millions of lives.
“With deeply moving footage of the “trips” the patients experience, this intimate film is an absorbing portrait of the human cost of depression, and the inspirational people contributing to this unique psychedelic research.” - Filmuforia
“Magic Medicine has a lot to say about the human condition, and how the complex nature of depression can be approached.” - James Luxford, Radio Times
- Year2019
- Runtime79 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- Rating15
- DirectorMonty Wates
- CastRobin Carhart-Harris, Rosalind Watts