What I don't understand is how they decided to make this film rather than a one about the genuinely
interesting psychological experiment outlined in the article...
An interesting psychological experiment has shown that when we think we are observed, we tend to be more honest (e.g. posters with faces or eyes in the work place have this effect).
Not exact matches
Also,
interesting piece in the second half: Artur Żmijewski's Repetition, a 2005 reenactment of the famous Stanford
psychological experiment in which a group of college students played roles of prisoners and guards.
Relating to surrealism and the 20th century mescaline
experiments by Henri Michaux, it continues Koester's
interest in both physical journeys and
psychological exploration.
The implementation didn't directly involve individual
psychological analysis, but created an
experiment of either artistic or therapeutic manifestations of various actors, both from the art world and by other
interested participants.