Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Morley Markson and released in 1971.[1] The film is a profile of many of the politically and culturally radical figures who established and defined counterculture in the 1960s.[2]

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
Directed byMorley Markson
Written byMorley Markson
Produced byMorley Markson
CinematographyMorley Markson
Edited byMorley Markson
John N. Smith
Production
company
Morley Markson & Associates
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • April 15, 1971 (1971-04-15)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Figures appearing in the film include Don Cox, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Fred Hampton, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, William Kunstler, Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin and John Sinclair.

The film premiered on April 15, 1971, at the Whitney Museum in New York City, as part of the New American Filmmakers Series.[3] It was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival,[2] and had its Canadian premiere at Toronto's Poor Alex Theatre's summer screening series of Canadian films in June 1971.[1]

A sequel, Growing Up in America, was released in 1988 to profile the ways in which many of the figures profiled in the original film had evolved from "yippies" into "yuppies".[4]

References
  1. Kaspars Dzeguze, "A collection of fools in Markson's Breathing Together". The Globe and Mail, June 23, 1972.
  2. Roger Levesque, "Breathing Together recalls '60s idealism". Edmonton Journal, August 12, 1992.
  3. Joseph Gelmis, "The filming of greening". Newsday, April 14, 1971.
  4. Ina Warren, "From the '60s to the '80s; Markson's growing up at the International Festival". Ottawa Citizen, October 30, 1988.


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