Showing posts with label Abbie Hoffman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abbie Hoffman. Show all posts

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Ant-Society presents: Lord of the Universe (1974)


Excerpt from the duPont-Columbia winning documentary that takes a skeptical view of the Guru Maharaj Ji, leader of a cult-like, new age group, the Divine Light Mission (DLM), and who is known to his followers as "The Lord of the Universe".





It chronicles a gathering of his followers at Houston's Astrodome, as well as some of the beliefs and practices of his zealous supporters. This excerpt features Rennie Davis and Abbie Hoffman. Clips of Davis in his more radicals days are contrasted with his current New Agey-support of the Guru. Hoffman is quite critical of Davis and the other followers: "Rennie is arrogant about the future... There's a difference between saying youve found god, and that you know his address."... "If this guy IS God, hes the God America deserves!"

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Death. (a short documentary)

Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. The word refers both to the particular processes of life's cessation as well as to the condition or state of a formerly living body.




The nature of death has been for millennia a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry, and belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of religious belief. In modern scientific enquiry, the origin and nature of consciousness has yet to be fully understood; any such view about the existence or non-existence of consciousness after death therefore remains speculative. This short, independant documentary explores what people think about the subject of death.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Ant-Society presents: Tales of Hoffman (2001)

Short documentary about the two main figures in the Chicago Conspiracy trial - Abbie Hoffman and the presiding judge, Julius Hoffman. This piece compares the Hoffmans' personalities and argues that they had a mutual fascination with one another.





Abbie Hoffman was truly one of the heroes of my youth, along with Bobby Seale, and the Berrigan brothers. REVOLUTION!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Revolutionary Documentaries.

Anti-Society t.v. is dedicated to bringing fresh and enlightening entertainment alternatives to the Mainstream Media Machine by bringing you the best independent films and documentaries on the planet! Today's line up consist of three revolutionary documentaries that are sure to educate and hopefully inspire you, the viewer.



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Today's documentaries are;

My Dinner with Abbie
An ex flower child sits down for dinner with a revolutionary icon of the 60s and 70s.
The filmmaker dines with the late Abbie Hoffman, touching on the salad days of political activism and the apathy of contemporary American society

ABC Colombia
Through the eyes of children, a look at life in a rural community controlled by paramilitary forces.

Bright College Years - “Sixties Legacy” series
Classic documentary on the student revolution in this "Sixties Legacy" series.