CIRCUIT EARTH
John Hoskyns-Abrahall, Christopher Bamford, Robert Feldman, Michael Katz, Peter Wiesner
“CIRCUIT EARTH” was produced in honor of the first Earth Day in 1970. Shot throughout Philadelphia during Earth Week in the lead up to the festival, and at the festival itself, the film features community groups, citizens, and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet at the end of the 60s. The structure of the film reflects the thinking of anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and systems theorist Gregory Bateson (“Steps to an Ecology of Mind”). Amongst those appearing are Allen Ginsberg, Senator Ed Muskie, Paul Ehrlich, George Wald, the cast of the Broadway musical “HAIR”, Jerry Rubin, Alan Watts, Ralph Nader, the rock band Redbone, and Ed Sanders of The Fugs.
Artists: John Hoskyns-Abrahall, Christopher Bamford, Robert Feldman, Michael Katz, Peter Wiesner
Title of the work: CIRCUIT EARTH
Year: 1971
Medium: Video (Shot on 16mm film)
Duration of the work: 43 min 34 sec
Copyright owner: Films of the Last Twenty Years
Language: English
Credits
A film by John Abrahall, Christopher Bamford, Robert Feldman, Michael Katz, Peter Krotoczynski
