with Abbie Hoffman

Allen Ginsberg

Jerry Rubin

Timothy Leary

William Kunstler

Black Panthers:

Don Cox

Fred Hampton

Deborah Johnson and

Fred Hampton Jr.

White Panther:

John Sinclair

PRIZES

Special Prize of the Lord Mayor, City of Mannheim, Best Documentary Feature
MANNHEIM FILM FESTIVAL


Silver Hugo
CHICAGO FILM FESTIVAL


Critics' Choice Award: Best Documentary,
INDIANA FILM SOCIETY FESTIVAL OF NEW CANADIAN CINEMA

REVIEWS & COMMENTS

"delightfully irreverent"
GEORGIA STRAIGHT

"compelling, unsettling, thought- provoking"
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

''Growing up in America is a valuable footnote to history. It can be faulted only for not being longer...”
VINCENT CANBY, NEW YORK TIMES

"intriguing and entertaining"
NEW YORK POST

"remarkable"
VANCOUVER SUN

"evocative, penetrating and entertaining -                   an invaluable document"
METROPOLIS

"celebration of their idealism - the epoch's wildly invigorating energy"
GLOBE & MAIL

“....an honest movie....”  “....Morley Markson was so quiet, why didn't he tell me he was making such a big movie?"  
ABBIE HOFFMAN SPEAKING AT THE WORLD PREMIERE, TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL


Nominated for Best Documentary Feature

GEMINI AWARDS

THEN: "Now, we think if you ask us how the Government is going to be brought down, or lost in the shuffle, as we tend to put it, our mottos is "Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you!"

NOW: "I've been doing this for 27 years. I could do another 27 years. I don't have to change. I got away with it before and I can just keep doing it, so .... I mean I don't have to change!"

ABBIE HOFFMAN

ALLEN GINSBERG

FRED HAMPTON

THEN: "...in order to maintain the American standard of living and maintain the American Way, we're literally going to destroy the planet, which will destroy the American Way, anyway" ... "OMMMMMM OMMMMMM OMMMMMM OMMMMMM OMMMMMM"

NOW: "I must apologize for being mistaken in those days. I had the wrong mantra all along.    I wish I had trusted my instincts more freely, as I do now, which are instincts of generosity rather than paranoia."

FRED HAMPTON THEN: "...We need some guns. Black People need some peace. White people need some peace. We're going to have to fight, we're going to have to struggle, we're going to have to bring about peace because the people that we're asking for peace, they're a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers."

DEBORAH JOHNSON NOW: "He was killed so young!"  (recalling Fred Hampton's killing when she was pregnant with his son, Fred Hampton Jr.) "...1 heard somebody call from the area in front of the kitchen: 'He's barely alive, he'll barely make it'...  The shooting started again and I heard a male voice again saying, 'He's good and dead now!'"

JERRY RUBIN

THEN:  (quoting his White Panther Party Ten Point Program) "Total assault on the culture by any means necessary including rock and roll, dope, and fu--ing in the streets. We believe that the general social structure of the Western World is crumbling, and that now is the time to increase the assault on this culture."

NOW: "When you see this guy all you want to do is arrest him, you know what I mean? If somebody walked up to me today and started talking like this I'd probably be frightened, you know: 'Get this guy outta here!'"

THEN: "Growing up in America means you gotta support the war in VietNam and you have to be a responsible citizen. We don't want to be responsible citizens, we're irrational, we're irrational and crazy. And that's what this whole trial is about. America destroys our dreams. And we're fighting to recover our dreams!"

NOW: "Actually in a way I believe the opposite now. I think it's a fantastic opportunity to Grow up in America because this is a country that does allow you to dream, you know, in a way, because of the 60's!"

THEN: "The conflict now is not between left and right, or the rich and the poor, or even the blacks and the whites, it's the conflict between the up-tight and the turned-on."

NOW: "In the 20th Century if you can't change what's on the screen, your mind and your life is being controlled by the people who do control the screen.  That's ABC, KGB, NBC, CIA."

JOHN SINCLAIR

TIMOTHY LEARY

Produced & Directed by

Morley Markson

Executive Producer: Don Haig

Co-Producer: Joan Schafer


Based on a theme suggested by:

Don Haig and George Miller


Consulting Assoc. Producer: John Board

Cinematography: Andreas Poulsson, Leonidas Zourdomis, David O’Keefe, Yves Billon, Joseph Freedman, Morley Markson (from Breathing Together)

Assistant Camera: Leonard Farlinger

Location Equipment: P.S. Production Services, Doug Dales

Sound: Aerlyn Weissman, Reynald Trudel, Mike Lecroix, John McCormick, Agnes Guerin.

Production Manager: Joan Schafer

Location Manager: Leonard Farlinger

Production Assistant: Joanna Markson


Original Musical Score: Marty Simon

Picture Editor, Director, Morley Markson

Assistant Editor: Louise Lebeau

Consulting Editors: Tom Berner, Don Haig

Sound Editor: Karl H. Konnry

Assistant Sound Editor: Louise Lebeau

Foley: Reid James Atherton

Re-recording Sound Editors: Mike Hoogenboom, Tony Van Den Akker

Still Photographer: Leonard Farlinger


Includes sections of the film:  Breathing Together, Revolution of the Electric Family, a film by Morley Markson.


A Cinephile Release: Andre Bennett


Post Production:

Film House Group, Film Arts

Title Design: Eli Barr Associates

Titles by Metamedia

Research: Claire Weissman, Zoe Thurling, Shari Segal, Paula Draper, Cyril Levitt

Theme Consultants: Ron Levaco,

Joan Schafer.

N.Y. Laison: Alan Meislin

California Liasons: Ken Beckmann

Transportation New York:

The Vanmen.

Northampton Massachusetts Video: Don Abrams

Insurance Services: Arthur Winkler

Production Accountant: Rowie Walker.

Travel Arrangements: Perly Travel,

Tic-Toc Tours


Neg Cutter: May Bischof

Neg Timer: Ricardo Olivero

Gratefully acknowledging the assistance of City TV,

Michael Macina,

Ellen O’Leary,

Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Company,

The Palladium, N.Y.


Produced with the participation of: Telefilm Canada,

Ontario Film Development Corporation,

Don Haig, Film Arts,

Doug Dales P.S. Production Services.









Counter-culture heroes of the Sixties were originally filmed in the documentary classic of those times, “Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family.”

18 years later our heroes were filmed in their new haunts and their present lives.  The new film was married with old, creating a cultural time-sandwich.

The Mannheim Film Festival Jury, in awarding it the Lord Mayor’s Prize for best Documentary Feature, described it as: “...a convincing document of the beginnings of the wide International Liberation Movement of the Sixties.  In the lively montage of this very personally filmed material, coupled with statements from the present, it shows that the power and the hope of this awakening continues to this day.”

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