Spring 2006
May 9, 2006

Commune

U.S.A., 2005, 78 min., col., doc.
Director: Jonathan Berman

...the legendary social experiment of the ’60s...

In 1968, with donations from the Doors, the Monkees, and Michelangelo Antonioni, a group of free-thinkers bought a piece of land near Siskiyou County, California, the Black Bear Ranch. Its slogan was “free land for free people,” free in every sense of the word—free from money, clothing, restraint.... For the next 37 years, the commune explored every aspect of experimental living. Its members were among the first activists to promote organic farming and to protest, among other things, clear-cut logging. The film includes vintage footage of commune members in all their youthful earnestness as well as current interviews with ex-inhabitants, some now greying and paunchy but still fighting the power.

More info: five.points.media website.

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