Autoscopy follows a sound artist who escapes to the Swedish wilderness for a period of creativity and introspection. The discovery of an old, abandoned floatation tank, and experimenting with psilocybin mushrooms, evokes a strange alchemy of deep-rooted imagery. Boundaries are dissolved between the organic and the unnatural, the imagined and the experienced. The film elicits a disorientating voyage deep into the heart of nature and, ultimately, deeper into himself.

With an eye for cinematic storytelling, director Claes Nordwall opens his no-dialogue narrative short with a quote from American ethnobotanist and psychedelics guru Terrence McKenna: “Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.” This pithy wisdom sets the groundwork for a film that combines rugged Nordic landscape with an original score of mystifying woodland sounds composed by Barn Owl’s Evan Caminiti.