Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

The read

It runs a compact 45m.

Synopsis

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty Topp’s beautiful film of ‘Paradise Now’ reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust, encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise.

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Key crew

• Marty ToppDirector

Cast

• Julian BeckCast
• Judith MalinaCast

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