Everything they tried helped. None of it lasted.

A documentary following two people through a supervised protocol built on neuroscience, contemplative practice, and a compound now in clinical trials. It documents the part nobody films: what happens in the weeks after.

Four sold-out theatres.
Roughly 6400 people saw it during the online premiere.
Now you can watch it today.

WATCH THE FILM

Winner and official selection across twelve international film festivals.

YOUR TICKET

Watch UNbecoming at home

  • 72 hours with the film,
    starting the moment you press play

  • 30 days from purchase to begin,
    so there's no rush to start tonight

  • BONUS: The High Performer's Map to Psychedelics,

    a field guide by Nicholas Kusmich (PDF, yours to keep)

Many people finish the film with questions. The Map is an honest field guide to the seven psych*delics people ask about most, written to sit beside the film rather than replace a conversation with a professional. It's yours to keep.

Rent it today and three more pieces come with it.

The film runs 84 minutes. A lot didn't make the final edit, including three pieces that answer what people are left asking when the credits roll. Rent within your first 24 hours here and they come with your rental:

  • You Need An Ego (14:10min Video).

    The work isn't about ego dissolution; you need your ego. The video has the science experts talking about the role of the ego and discusses why a researcher who studies it says the monster is still there.

  • The Scientist Who Wasn't There. (15:57min Video)

    A scientist who has spent his career on how the brain makes consciousness describes an experience with no "I" in it, and why it still didn't change what he thinks is real.

  • Twenty Minutes, or Twenty Years. (16:53min Video)

    A meditation expert with more than twenty years of retreats behind him goes through a 5me0 experience in a lab. The researcher describes what happens.

About 47 minutes together. They play on the same page as your film.

These bonuses are only available for a limited time after you first land here.

About the deadline

The deadline is real, and it's yours. Your 24 hours started the first time you opened this page. It doesn't reset, and nobody gets a fresh one.

There are two different time limits here, so let me keep them straight. The first is about the bonus: 24 hours from your first visit. Your rental is separate: 72 hours from the moment you press play, and 30 days from purchase to start. So you can rent today, watch next weekend, and the three answers are still yours.

When the 24 hours are up, nothing else changes. The film is still $9.99 and the Map still comes with it. The bonuses just don't.

Why a deadline at all? Because "I'll watch it this weekend" has a way of turning into three months. I'd rather give you a reason to decide now, and something worth having if you do.

$9.99 (festival screenings were $25)

THE FILM

Years of looking for something that would hold.

Nicholas and Fehren Kusmich spent years searching for something that would actually hold. What felt profound on Saturday, faded by Tuesday. They were looking for something that changed the wiring underneath.

What they built is a multi-month protocol: neuroscience, contemplative understandings, clinical oversight, and a molecule that opens a window in the brain most people never knew existed. The window stays open for a limited time. What you do inside it decides whether anything sticks.

UNBECOMING follows real people through that window. Not experts describing it. People living it, the part before, the part during, and the harder part after. You're taken inside the actual experiences where cameras rarely go.

It won't show you something new. It briefly removes the thing doing the looking.

5-MeO is being studied in clinical trials. This is the first documentary to follow real people through it.

Who's in the film

The Team

100+ Countries

We’ve travelled to over 100+ countries making commercial films for brands like:

Academic Recognition

As experts in the science of storytelling, we’ve been invited to train:

United Nations, Apple, Nike & 10,000 + filmmakers in over 100 countries.

We've earned

5 National Emmy Awards

More than 100M impressions worldwide

Before you buy

No. It's a documentary, made for anyone curious about the subject.
No. It documents one supervised, clinically overseen protocol and the people who went through it. It isn't instruction or a recommendation.
72 hours from the moment you press play. Nothing counts down before that, and you have 30 days from purchase to start.
You have 24 hours from the first time you came to this page to get the three extra answers with your rental. It won't reset. After that you can still rent the film, with the Map, just without the three answers bonus videos.
An internet connection and a browser on any phone, tablet, laptop or computer. Your private link arrives by email within a few minutes of buying.
Check spam or promotions first. If it's not there, go to watch.unbecoming.movie, enter the email you bought with, and we'll send your link again.
Yes. One rental covers one household. Please keep your link to yourselves, since it's personal to you.
Yes. At checkout you can add a full year with the film for $17, along with the scene we cut and a long conversation with Fehren and Nicholas about making it.

The part nobody films.

UNbecoming is a documentary. It records what specific people experienced and said during a period of their lives. It is not medical or psychological advice, not a recommendation of any substance or protocol, and not a claim that anything shown in the film will happen for anyone else. It is not a substitute for consultation with a qualified health professional.

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