Commune
Documentary (77 min.)

After growing up in the 1950's, a group of artists and activists go to a remote mountain ranch to imagine a new world with one credo: "Free Land for Free People." Their would-be utopia is complicated by FBI surveillance, drug raids, the births of their many children, near-starvation and a cult that takes the "revolution" over the edge. It also turns out that there are almost as many ideas of about communal living and decision-making as there are free-spirited residents. Covering a forty-year period, Commune is the first documentary to look inside communal living, revealing how the choices that define our personal lives can reverberate throughout the fabric of a nation and the globe.
"Often mocked and rarely understood, the movement in communal living that blossomed with Flower Power in the '60s gets its most honest appraisal yet on film with Jonathan Berman's "Commune." .... A keen vet docu-maker's eye and a chronicler's compassion lends pic real resonance." – VARIETY