The Source Family (2012)
The Source Family (2012)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x400 | x264 @ 1571 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | 99 min | 1,40 Gb
Genre: Documentary, Music
DVDRip | MKV | 720x400 | x264 @ 1571 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | 99 min | 1,40 Gb
Genre: Documentary, Music
Directors: Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille
Stars: Ahom Aquarian, Isis Aquarian, Don Bolles
A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip until their communal living, outsider ideals and spiritual leader Father Yod's 13 wives became an issue with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise.
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…The film's main strength is its massive amount of archival footage and primary documentation of the family unit, mostly thanks to the collections of "family historian" Isis Aquarian. The fascinating and comprehensive collection of Super 8 video, photo stills, and the Source Family's own trippy music already tease out the classical linear rise-and-fall story—even concluding in Father Yod's Icarus-like "flying too close to the sun" hang-gliding demise after the Source Family moves to Hawaii. As one interviewee notes in relation to her daddy-issue-plagued sister's affiliation with the group: "I don't have to have a graduate degree in psychology to realize why the Source Family was meaningful to my sister." Although The Source Family doesn't possess a palpable thesis worthy of a grade-A school paper, the research and elucidating synthesis on display effectively illuminate the pernicious aura of a lifestyle pursued by the yearning, lost souls of the tim
