One Step Away

Look at a crumbling hippie commune in California In the words of Ed Pincus It was the Summer of Love 1967 The HaightAshbury section of San Francisco was to be the center of a vast cultural experiment Ideologically it was an attempt at a postindustrial society where people no longer needed to work and communities of choice allowed people to do their own thing David Neuman and I set off to film what happened that summer We decided to do what we thought would be a film about a rural commune because that seemed to be the apotheosis of hippie ideals What we found was a bizarre replication of bourgeois societythe sun rose on the nothing new We decided to use an anecdotal editing style with an attempt to enforce a narrative line