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“Really, I think, behind everything, he was trying to teach people to see differently.“ - Genesis P-Orridge, on Brion Gysin The dream machine looks simple enough: A 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The dream machine offers a drugless high that its creator -- poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin -- believed would revolutionize human consciousness. He wasn’t alone. Kurt Cobain had a dream machine. And William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to “storm the citadels of enlightenment.“ With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin -- his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the 20th century’s key counterculture figures. Gysin was fascinated by identity. He saw himself as a incarnation of the 10th-century King of Assassins, traine