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"I Am My Own Laboratory" is an experimental documentary on a remarkable woman. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, is an English scientist, drug policy reformer, artist and penetrative cultural provocateur. In 1998, she founded the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes a rational, evidence-based approach to global drug policy policies and initiates, directs and supports pioneering neuroscientific and clinical research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and cognition. The central aim of her research is to investigate new avenues of treatment for such mental illnesses as depression, anxiety and addiction, as well as to explore methods of enhancing well-being and creativity. Feilding learned about the ancient practice of trepanation from Bart Huges, whom she met in 1966, and who published a scroll on the topic. She trepanned herself in 1970.

Half of the film was captured through the lens of a hand-cranked 35mm camera, specifically a 1912 Bell and Howell 2709 - B. The remaining portion was filmed in high definition. Following meticulous manual processing and employing a color matrix and gamma derived from a personally crafted emulsion (utilizing my own tinted blood cells for grain, inspired by a 1930s patent), the film underwent a transformation into high-definition video. The essence of the work revolves around contemporary representation, navigating the realms of analog and binary, electricity, hydro power, British Columbia, the inception of cinema via Eadweard Muybridge, the energy certificates of the Technocracy party, the intrinsic value of noise, the pivotal year of 1957, regional Vancouver modernism, the cosmic origins akin to the Big Bang, Vermeer's timeless "Milk Maid," the Poincaré recurrence theorem, the melodic resonance of the great Canadian cowboy singer Wilf Carter, the embodiment of Grace in Catholic painting, the Tathagatas of Buddhism, and the poignant image of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein reaching for the light.

A post-punk gonzo doco from the 1980's refreshed in 2023. The Squamish Five - a significant historical Canadian recollection, a refreshment of memory in a time of ever increasing environmental suicidal somnambulism and political dementia.