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Life-Raft Earth mediadocumentary

Original title: Life-Raft Earth
Year: 1969
Running time: 37 min.
Country: United States
Director: Robert Frank
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Robert Frank
Producer: Stewart Brand, Wavy Gravy
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film
Synopsis: Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand and his friend Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) asked Robert Frank to document “The Hunger Show,” a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California. This was a “happening” designed to make the problem of world hunger and malnutrition a personal matter for participants and observers. The film records the event, which took place October 11–18, 1969, in a parking lot in Hayward, CA.

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