Growing Up In America

In 1969, Morley Markson's film BREATHING TOGETHER: REVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRIC FAMILY offered a glimpse at some of America's most radical and persuasive thinkers, with concurrent documentary footage and imaginative effects. Eighteen years later, he revisited his interviewees and sat them in front of the earlier videotape to comment on their pasts.

Jerry Rubin, a charismatic proponent of rebellion then, is now a proud member of the middle-class. Abbie Hoffman, the Jewish vaudevillian of the batch, is still campaigning for grass-roots causes. Fred Hampton's death during a violent police raid on a Black Panther house is recalled by the woman who was then pregnant w...