SYNOPSIS
Entities with Knowledge documents a session of psilocybin assisted therapy that I underwent for the purpose of treating my depression. Threaded through my ‘trip’ are scenes with people who place psilocybin mushrooms at the forefront of their lives. Taking the audience on a series of hairpin emotional turns, it’s a film that is sometimes funny, sometimes upsetting, and often difficult to predict.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Entities with Knowledge is perhaps the furthest I’m willing, or able, to push exposing myself personally to an audience. Inviting a crew to film me undergo a session of psilocybin assisted therapy was challenging to say the least. Even more difficult was the task of revisiting footage of myself in that state (with all of my angst and grandiosity). Yet, isn’t that the level of vulnerability that documentarians ask of their “subjects” on a regular basis? 

I always aim to be a crowd pleaser but I seem to have made a film, this time around, that divides audiences. I find that the people who like this film are pleased by its open-endedness and recognize the lengths I’ve gone to avoid soliciting a full identification from viewers. I rejected a process that attempts to master the film’s supposed material. Instead I undertook the possibly simpler task of putting myself in relation to the people and experiences that I documented.