If you are heading to Cinetopia on Sunday at the DIA be sure to check out The Source Family
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After your blown away by this flick stick around and catch
the Tribute to Ron Asheton to round out your weekend
The Source Family was a radical
experiment in '70's utopian living. Their outlandish lifestyle, popular
celebrity hangout restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the
darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and
controversial spiritual leader, Father Yod, along with his thirteen wives,
instigated local authorities.
Yod was a visionary health food restaurateur,
war hero, and judo champion who had thirteen wives and fronted the now
legendary psych band Ya Ho Wa 13. The family fled to Hawaii, leading to their
dramatic demise. Years later, family members surface and the rock band reforms,
revealing how the experience shaped their lives in the most unexpected ways.
This treasure trove of interviews with never-before-seen home movies,
photographs, and original music created by The Source Family themselves,
provides an unparalleled insider’s view into the cult/commune phenomenon and
wildly outside-the-box social experimentation of the early ‘70s—as well as a
being a wholly unique California story.
Directed by Jodi Wille and Maria
Demopoulos, the film is inspired by the cult-classic book The Source: The Story
of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family written by Isis Aquarian and
Electricity Aquarian and edited by Jodi Wille (Process Media, 2007).
