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The Inner Revolution - a
Gil W. Toff film Music by John Lennon is based on his own experience and insights from his
therapy. The
Inner Revolution documents the intensive Primal Therapy of a thirty-five year
old college professor who has spent most of his life taking refuge in the
comfortable half-world of neurosis.
Before Primal Therapy, he had sought help in Existential Encounter
groups, sensitivity training workshops, and many of the more “liberated”
schools of awareness inducing, “touch and feel” therapies, but beyond
symptomatic relief, he was not freed from his neurosis.
Through
Primal Therapy, he experiences an Inner Revolution. Not merely able to function in socially acceptable ways, he
emerges instead whole, real, with deep internal unity, no longer dependent on
acting out a neurotic life-style. Divorced, with
two children, he is from a small Ohio town, often called the All-American
City. Fittingly enough, dissecting
him is very much like dissecting America.
If there was a typical American,
He would be it; loyal, church going, industrious, tense, and “dead”.
He wasn’t getting much out of life; it all seemed so empty and without
meaning. Most of the
film concerns the three weeks of his daily sessions in Primal Therapy. The film also follows his return home to
Ohio and his encounter with his parents after much of his therapy had been
completed. It should
be emphasized that no part of his therapy experience was staged for this
film, and the permission to document his therapy was unconditional. His full
history is found under his pseudonym, “Tom”, in the book: “The
Primal Scream”, by Arthur Janov, PhD, the therapist in the film. The above covers most aspects of the film and the tie-in
with the book. The film is Black and
White; running time 85 minutes; on DVD.
The film was invited to over forty national and
international major film festivals: §
Atlanta Film Festival §
Berlin Film Festival §
Cannes Film Festival §
Cuban Film Festival §
Edinburgh Film Festival §
Holland Film Festival §
International Film Festival at Rotterdam §
London Film Festival §
Moscow Film Festival §
New York Film Festival §
San Francisco Film Festival §
Toronto Film Festival §
Venice Film Festival
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▪ About Us ▪
Some Won’t Go
▪ The Inner Revolution ▪ Busted! ▪
Contact ▪ I-Accuse – current project ▪ |
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