A broken man crashes into a house of hippie ghosts chasing a revolution that's already over.
Traumatized by his recent divorce, lovelorn Stanley takes off cross country to San Francisco, landing at his enterprising sister Nancy's doorstep. Nancy, who makes counterculture cinema-themed t-shirts, lives in "Camille's Castle," a frozen-in-time legacy home for displaced artists and outcasts. Together, they search for the remaining scraps of San Francisco's Summer of Love, and wind up at odds with each other. Countercurrents is an aggressive tribute to the counterculture films of the late 60's, with "easter eggs" in no short supply.
Production
Camille's Castle is a character—every prop screams lived-in history.
Writing
Dialogue that name-drops Pennebaker and Wexler like casual gossip.
Costume
Nancy's t-shirts are actual counterculture film deep cuts.
Director
Daniel Kremer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Daniel Kremer shot in actual legacy homes of Bay Area artists, some lent by children of 60s documentarians.
The title references both 'undercurrents' of social change and literally swimming against the tide—Stanley's fatal flaw.
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