Mike Brodie
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

Mike Brodie rode his first freight train as a bored seventeen-year-old kid from Pensacola, Florida, looking for an adventure.

Andrea Zittel
How to Live?

What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn

Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.

Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe

Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.

Primitive Technology
The Satisfaction of Simplicity

Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule.

Antoine Bruy
Scrublands

How do we want to live? These people choose a life away from the cities, willing to abandon lifestyles based on performance, efficiency and consumption.

Gerhard Riebicke
Ways to Strength and Beauty

Gerhard Riebicke’s photography paved the way for the awakening of the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century.

Alone
in the Wilderness

Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.

Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods

“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…

Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was

This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.

Adrain Chesser
The Return

There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.

Justine Kurland
Escape into a better world

To me these pictures present a futuristic vision rather than a look back at our savage ancestors.

Lebensreform
Monte Verità

I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.

Taylor Camp
Paradise Lost

I am fascinated by people who make the bold step into alternative ways of living. If none of the given choices seem to fit you, create your own!

Benoit Paillé
Rainbow Gatherings

Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.

Dennis McKenna
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss

Dennis McKenna shared a life’s devotion to psychedelics with his better known brother. And he wrote a book about it.

Jean Liedloff
The Continuum concept

This book is a must for all future parents. Besides that they don’t need to learn much.

Auroville
A city in the making

Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…