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Far Out: life on & after the commune

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May's Top 30 Films • 1h 25m

Directed by Charles Light • Documentary • 2024 • 85 minutes

Far Out: Life On & After the Commune tells the story of two rural New England communal farms. The film traces fifty years in the lives of a group of New England writers, activists and artists. It conveys not only how these “hippies” transformed Vermont and Western Massachusetts, but also how rural life and the people they met changed them.

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1960s, 1968, activism, alternative lifestyles, american (u.s.) studies, american history, back to the land, bullfrog films, citizenship, communal farming, communal farms, communal living, commune, community, counterculture, doc, documentary, environment, expository, far out, far out: life on & after the commune, liberation news service, montague, new england, no nukes, no nukes movement, organic farming, ovid, packer corners, political history, political philosophy, social issues, social movements and activism, social psychology, sociology, sociss, the 1960s and vietnam era, u.s. history

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