https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIQv1TZhWLABorn Dropped Out: 12 Questions For Hippie Kids - A DocumentaryCaleb Clark
Published on Jun 6, 2012
A documentary from a 2008 thesis project at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
I'd love to do a much higher resolution version with more subjects. If you're a child of hippies from the 1960s and 1970s, and you are interested in interviewing yourself on camera. I'm ready to do another version of this video! Contact:
www.calebjc.org,
[email protected]Here's the background of this project.
I interviewed several children of hippies in 2008 and made an experimental interactive web based interface to watch the interviews by time, question, or subject. Later I edited this video together as a documentary.
The kids of hippies are a fascinating subject to me, and not just because I am one. I believe they are rare window into the results of an informal experiment in alternative child rearing.
Here's my thesis intro.
The Hippies of the 60s and 70s created a social revolution that impacted everything from recycling to relationships, from tofu to what was taboo. They made their mark from the halls of justice, to the Halloween costumes you can buy for your kid ironically, at your local drug store. Many hippies were weekend hippies who wore the costume and went back to work on Monday.
A few hippies however totally changed their lives and dropped out of normal society altogether.
Some of these hippies then had kids.
These kids were not hippies like their parents. They did not decide to drop out. They were born dropped out.
In 2008 six of these children of hippies, now in ther 30s and 40s, were tracked down as part of a thesis project in experimental documentary video.
They were asked to answer the same set of questions, while recording themselves using a video camera.
The interviews are from an experiment in new interfaces for documentary video as part of a 2008 Masters Thesis at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, also by Caleb Clark.
