FEATURING DISCUSSION and Q&A with FILMMAKERS

In 1968, a group of political radicals left New York City for the country and became organic farmers, founding two communes-at Packer Corners in Guilford, VT, and Montague, MA. This is the story of how the commune became a community, tracing fifty years in the lives of this group of New England writers, activists and artists. It conveys not only how these “hippies” transformed Vermont and western Massachusetts, but also how rural life and the people they met changed them.

Blending contemporary interviews and a remarkable trove of original archival footage, Far Out is lively, humorous, inspiring and irreverent. The point of view is honest rather than nostalgic. The film is vital, telling the history but hewing to the universal themes of how we grapple--over a lifetime--with politics, relationships, morality, spirituality, civic engagement and finding our home.