Dream Tower
Film Information:
Year:
2009
Dream Tower
País:
Director:
Color:
B&W
Format:
Digibeta
Duration:
47 min
Cast:
- Paul Evitts
Production:
- GUIÓN: Ron Mann, Len Blum,
- Bill Schroeder
- MONTAJE: Robert Kennedy
- PRODUCCIÓN: Ron Mann,
- Sue Len Quon
Contact:
- Sphinx Productions
- Bill Imperial
- 24 Mercer Street
- M5V 1H3 Toronto, ON, Canada
- T +1 416 971 9131
- F +1 416 971 6014
- E ron@sphinxproductions.com
- mboyuk@sphinxproductions.com
- W www.sphinxproductions.com
- www.filmswelike.com
Synopsis
A captivating, colourful ride on the roller coaster that was Rochdale College, Dream Tower chronicles Toronto’s most notorious social experiment of the sixties. Inspired by cultural critic Paul Goodman, philosophies of alternative education, and the decade’s political upheaval, a group of young idealists established Rochdale as a free university and student residence in 1968. Rochdale’s founders envisioned an enlightened community of self-educators, and the first 100 or so students, earnestly studying subjects such as Heidegger and anarchism in eight-hour seminars, made the dream seem possible. But they didn’t anticipate that some people wouldn’t know what to do with freedom, that hippies kicked out of Yorkville would overrun the building, or that drug-dealing motorcycle gangs would camp out in the lobby. One of the most intelligent and subtle documentaries about the radical ideas that animated the counterculture, Dream Tower is Ron Mann’s unsung masterpiece.
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