
Heroic Dose
When dinner party guests start swapping stories about their experiences with mind-altering substances, Dugan interjects with the ultimate tale of accidentally taking a “heroic dose” of a mystical elixir on a beach in Costa Rica. Told through meta-re-enactment, puppetry, animation, archival footage, and interviews with his best friend and family, Dugan leads his listeners to his discovery of how to kill the ego mind – and inspires them all to do the same. HEROIC DOSE is a journey into the self, the ego mind, language, storytelling, and ancient forms of altered states that ultimately connects us to the Great Mystery.



SHORT FILM
DIRECTED BY
Dugan Gundelfinger
PRODUCED BY
Ritu Paramesh