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Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family

Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family

Re-Visiting "Father" and the Source Family

Evan Wells | USA | 2005 | 148' |

| IFFR 2006

Our master of ceremonies, Mr Evan T. Wells, masterfully ushers us through the epic human complexity of the Source Family and Father Yod / Ya Ho Wa – the man formally known as Jim Baker. Going back to the Beatnik era of the late 1950s, when Baker ran a sandal shop in Hollywood, Wells cuts, pastes, and animates a story around ‘being all out of tune but in harmony.’ It’s a family story of communal living, Hollywood Hills health food, and a single-minded devotion to costumes, communal idylls and following things through though they’ve long since fallen apart.

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