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Skip to content Pause background video DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN A tender film exploring psilocybin and the nature of consciousness Menu * DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN * ABOUT THE MOVIE Expand child menu * Synopsis & Trailer * The Team * Meet the Artists * The making of * WHERE TO SEE * IN THE MEDIA * RESOURCES * CONTACT Scroll down to content DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN Feature Documentary Film, 78 minutes Subtitels: English, French, Spanish, Dutch and German Location: Switzerland Production: Switzerland/the Netherlands World premiere: Fall 2021 This film takes you on a journey of mystical revelations through magic mushrooms and meditations. In ‘Descending the Mountain’ psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider and Zen master Vanja Palmers create a ground-breaking scientific experiment located on the majestic Mount Rigi in Switzerland. The film shows if and how, when united, psilocybin and meditation might expand our understanding of the nature of consciousness. Leaving the iconic visuals of the 60’s behind, ‘Descending the Mountain’ uses animation, sound, and A.I. to create a new visual language for the transcendent experience of oneness with nature. > “Descending the Mountain is exemplary for the current psychedelic renaissance. > In the hallucinating setting of the Swiss mountains and the serenity of a > monastery surrounded by nature, Maartje Nevejan takes us on an audio-visual > journey through expanded consciousness. As in her previous work ‘Are You > There?’ she uses various subtle techniques to document the enhanced reality of > inner experiences. Visually surprising and with a mesmerizing sound track this > film literally opens doors of perception akin to the effects of psychedelics.” > > – Patricia Pisters > Prof Media and film studies University Amsterdam LAURELS IN THE MEDIA LUCID NEWS This sweet story about the coming together of the brain scientist and the Zen monk is directed by the Dutch documentary filmmaker Maartje Nevejan, whose team of animators and special effects wizards add just enough bells and whistles to convey the subtle magic of the psychedelic state. Merely watching “Descending the Mountain” may increase the incidence of openness, optimism and mindfulness. Don Lattin BEDROCK By fairylike animations and fantastic images of nature, the beautiful film visualises how consciousness and nature are entangled. Malu Kirschbaum ZURICH AUDIENCE Finally a tender film about psychedelics PAROOL NEWSPAPER **** A very special documentary that shows how we can connect not with, but as nature, to the rest of nature. INSCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL This enchanting film shows us the value of psychedelics and mystical experiences for science and our humanity. FILMMAGAZINE **** Seen through the eyes of Zenmaster Vanja Palmers, the world is one living organism. People, animals and plants are part of one big concioussness. The A.I. creations are a magnificent recreation of the psychedelic experience. NRC NEWSPAPER **** The tone of this film is pleasantly modest, but nevertheless very impressive and intellectually and spiritually tantalizing. Nevejan again developed an innovative and aesthetic new visual language for psychedelics, which puts her in line with a long tradition of filmmakers and philosophers, who see film itself, as a way to make the invisible, the transcendence and the (un) consciousness visible. Dana Linssen OPEN FOUNDATION THE NETHERLANDS The most beautiful documentary I have seen about the science of psychedelics. Moving scenes in a magical mountain scenery, and two mystical main characters: A Zen master and a Neuro scientist. Joost Breeksema – director FOLLOW THE MUSHROOM PODCAST When pioneering science feels like watching a true fairytale, you know you’re witnessing something very special. A fundamental step of re-introducing, on the most stunning visual way, the mushroom on the highest levels of discourses. LUCID NEWS This sweet story about the coming together of the brain scientist and the Zen monk is directed by the Dutch documentary filmmaker Maartje Nevejan, whose team of animators and special effects wizards add just enough bells and whistles to convey the subtle magic of the psychedelic state. Merely watching “Descending the Mountain” may increase the incidence of openness, optimism and mindfulness. Don Lattin BEDROCK By fairylike animations and fantastic images of nature, the beautiful film visualises how consciousness and nature are entangled. Malu Kirschbaum ZURICH AUDIENCE Finally a tender film about psychedelics PAROOL NEWSPAPER **** A very special documentary that shows how we can connect not with, but as nature, to the rest of nature. Previous Slide Next Slide Continue reading "In the Media" SYNOPSIS & TRAILER What happens when you administer psilocybin to experienced zen meditators? A neuroscientist and a zen master carry out a double-blind experiment on a sphinxlike mountain in Switzerland. Their goal: to examine the nature of consciousness. “These substances are not for the sick only, they belong in the hands of meditation” Albert Hofmann Exactly fifty years after the ban on psychedelics a group of Zen meditators – who have never used any psychedelic substances before – are given psilocybin on the last day of a 5-day retreat. Half the group receives a placebo. Mystical experiences are induced through a combination of deep meditation and psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms. This scientific experiment, which was published in Nature magazine in 2020, may lift the controversy that has clouded the realm of psychedelics for far too long. Continue reading “Synopsis & trailer” WHERE TO SEE DTM opened in cinema’s in the Netherlands in november 2021. STREAMING PLATFORMS GAIA https://www.gaia.com/video/descending-the-mountain VIMEO https://vimeo.com/ondemand/descendingthemountain APPLE TV https://tv.apple.com/mz/movie/descending-the-mountain PRIME VIDEO AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Descending-Mountain-Dr-Peter-Gasser FILM FESTIVALS 2023 July 20-27 2023 BOOM Festival, Portugal May 31 – 4 June 4, 2023 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, VOD January 11-21, 2023 Bangalow Film Festival, Australia Distribution Canada is set by January 2023 by Levelfilm Continue reading “Where to see” FIND MORE INSPIRATIONAL INFO HERE: * DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN * ABOUT THE MOVIE * Synopsis & Trailer * The Team * Meet the Artists * The making of * WHERE TO SEE * IN THE MEDIA * RESOURCES * CONTACT * INSTAGRAM Proudly powered by WordPress Notifications Video is playing.