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.

 

Director: Dugan Gundelfinger

Producer: Ritu Paramesh