This Movie is no longer available here.

Request Online Screening

The San Francisco Diggers| 56mins
Director: Jean Pierre Zirn, Celine Deransart & Alice Gaillard | Producer: Jean Pierre Zirn
Focus Years: 1998 | Country: France
Subject Tags: americas, belief, culture, europe, france, united states
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
"Do your own thing". This could have been a slogan in the 1968’s Paris. This had been written four years earlier by the San Francisco "Diggers", a reference to XVIIth century’s egalitarians English revolution. In San Francisco’s parks, free meals and concerts, happenings: "Death of Money" were held. Poems on such issues as: overthrowing society, gratuitousness, and free love circulated. A mid-way between Berkeley’s students uprising and Haight Ashbury’s psychedelic révolution, they toughen their movement, abolish money, declare "Haight Hasbury a free town", and greet hippies. From 1966 to 1968, the street becomes the stage of their guerilla theatre, meals distribution, free stores…. Thirty years later, they are scattered all over California and committed to the green cause. The myth still lives through San Francisco and the undergound culture. Those who carry on the "digger" spirit, tell its legend. This documentary uses as much the records as the Diggers’ present account.

Send funds to team of this film/project:
NOTE: 100% of your funds are sent directly from here.

Contact/inquire about this film-project:

+=
Close

This storyteller has yet to share/set a wallet for the direct fund transfers.

Shall we send an email request on your behalf?

+=
Close
Human Life:
Human Community:
Human Exploration:
peace

The online film archive supports schools, universities, NGOs and other civil-service organizations across the globe on the principle of gift-economy. Watch films (documentaries, short films, talks & more) and promote filmmakers. Join this community of soulful storytellers from myriad cultures, in their mission to promote global consciousness. Empower their willful hearts, who see the future to be united and harmonious, who aspire for the wellbeing of all. Support learning about the ‘self’, culture, nature and the eternal soul – the evolution of life.
Support the humanity in the process of becoming ‘that’...

© 2024 Culture Unplugged. Serving Since 2007.
Promoting our collective consciousness through stories from across the planet!

Consciousness Matters!