Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.
Direction
Arden and Bond fuse Reichian bodywork with Sufi mysticism—bonkers but committed.
Production
Pure 1975 underground aesthetic: grainy, earnest, utterly unmarketable.
Director
Jane Arden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jane Arden was a pioneering feminist filmmaker who ran her own all-female theatre troupe; this collaboration with Jack Bond represents their most esoteric joint project.
The film explicitly channels Wilhelm Reich's controversial 'orgone energy' theories—by 1975 his work was banned and his books burned in the US, making this a genuinely radical citation.
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