Feature Documentary - YOU SAY YOU WANY A REVOLUTION?
Made in collaboration with the V&A Museum, London and based on the sell-out exhibition.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? explores the significance and impact of the late 1960s with key figures who demonstrated, agitated, acted, organised and galvanised revolutions in music, fashion, film, design, and activism and prompts the viewer to consider how far these revolutions have come and question what still needs to be done.
From its launching-off point of curatorial excavation, the film propels the viewer into the lives of those figures from the Sixties. In the four years from 1966 to 1970, these people bore witness to events that shook the status quo and sparked a push-back against society’s conservative values. These same days fostered an optimistic idealism that motivated people to come together and disrupt established power structures. Lines can be traced from the civil rights movement to multiculturalism, from the permissive society to feminism and gay liberation, from the hippie movement to environmentalism and communality.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? is imbued it with a message for today. The documentary had support from figures such as Yoko Ono, Michael Lang, Stewart Brand, Jonas Mekas, Peter Coyote, Joe Boyd, Michael Wadleigh, Caroline Coon, Twiggy and many more. Filmed on location in California, London, Paris and New York, they speak on their involvement in the late 1960s, reflect on how it changed the way we live now, and emphasize the critical point at which we find ourselves today. In this way, this film, born in revolutions, urges us to think about the revolutions of tomorrow.
