Film · Documentary
Better Living Through Chemistry (2021)
1 h 27 minDocumentary2021
In the 1970s, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin significantly contributed to the development and psychopharmaceutical use of MDMA: a catalyst to personal doors entombed or unknown. His widow, co-author, and research partner, Ann—alongside friends, family, and colleagues—gives a guided tour of their life and laboratory, reflecting on how risks and revelations opened a world of compound enlightenment. Stippled with spirituality, sadness, and skepticism, the Shulgins’ chemical love story examines the power of psychedelic psychotherapy, sacred alchemy, and challenging the path of misunderstood resistance.
- Director
- Connie Littlefield
- Writers
- Connie Littlefield, Siobhan Flanagan
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Release date
- September 21, 2021
Cast
Ann ShulginSelf
Alexander ShulginSelf- Tania ManningSelf
- Greg ManningSelf
Brian PerrySelf - Ann's Son- Renee Reeser ZelnickSelf
Mariavittoria ManginiSelf- Jennifer DumpertSelf
- Fire ErowidSelf
- Earth ErowidSelf
- David E. PrestiSelf
- Sunny HeartsongSelf
- Wendy PerrySelf - Ann's Daughter
- Paul F. DaleySelf
- Myron StolaroffSelf
- Jean StolaroffSelf
- Keeper TroutSelf
Jason TuckerSelf- Dechen SherpaSelf
