Love Family at a Rainbow Gathering in the early 80's

Seattle International Film Festival

From It Takes A Cult It Takes a Cult will screen at the Seattle International Film Festival!

From It Takes A Cult

photo ©Stewart Sayyah

Wisconsin Film Festival (On Wisconsin!)

so this is when i talk up my flick...that's me the brown haired kid fourth from the front. 

"Director Eric Johannsen was born in Wisconsin but grew up as part of the Love Family, a communal tribe of as many as 300 people based in Washington State. Combining wonderful home movie footage (much of it shot by his father, filmmaker Charles Johannsen, whose film Bill and Art is also playing at this year’s Festival) with modern conversations about what it was like to raise kids, and to be raised, in a family arrangement like no other. Members were given names that represented admirable qualities (Humility, Noble, Consolation, etc.) and shared the same surname: Israel. This film isn’t a repudiation of the Love Family, but an insider’s view of what drew the clan together. The charismatic leader, Love Israel, may have had some financial and relationship problems that in a more conventional documentary would have been the focus. Here, Johannsen helps the rest of us get a better sense of the powerful commitment to beauty and openness that defined the Family."

check it out Saturday April 4th 5:15 at the Bartell Theatre (Wisconsin Film Festival)It Takes a Cult

Intro

Flyer from Past Screening

This is a postcard for a short film that I screened last May...soon to come on youtube.

Welcome!

Stay tuned for deleted scenes and commentary from my documentary It Takes a Cult. This is my first blog. Enjoy.