Looking for Toxin X


Looking for Toxin X is a Czechoslovak short popular science documentary about LSD.

Plot

A dose of LSD is given to a DAMU theatre student, Petr Oliva, by the Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. Special effects convey the subjective experience of the experimental subject. The film's central premise is the search for ‘toxin x’, which is supposed to be at the root of all mental disorders. The medics believe that LSD will help them locate it.

Cast

Production

The whole film crew were also given LSD during filming. The experimental subject Oliva later recalled that the reason everyone was given the drug was because, “we had to see for ourselves what happens to a person .”
Excerpts from the film appear in the documentary LSD made in ČSSR directed by Pavel Křemen.”