Last Hippie Standing

Last Hippie Standing is a 45-minute English-language documents of German documentary filmmaker Marcus Robbin about the hippie movement and the psychedelic trance scene in Goa and in particular in Anjuna, India. The film compares the hippie era in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century with the situation in 2000.

Content

The documentation, largely dispenses with speaker, consists of recordings of the continuing party culture in Goa, excerpts private film footage from the seventies, and interviews with after the hippie trail at the site remaining travelers, locals and local government officials such as the Chief Minister of Goa, Francisco Sardinha.

The " hippie territory " of Goa appears first as a small party enclave younger hippie tourists amidst the more worldly and native Indian Goa, whose inhabitants consider the local goings with mixed feelings, but welcome the associated opportunities for their own livelihood. Also for the local authorities are practical problems in the foreground, such as the Economic Impact of Tourism or the drug problem. Using interviews with long-established hippies, such as the DJ Goa Gil, the dropout Swami William and old film footage, the authors try to depict the motives and circumstances of the settlement of hippies in Goa in the 1960s and 1970s. Towards the end of the film it comes to the legacy of the hippie movement to Psytrance, yoga and expansion of consciousness and the relationship to the Love Parade movement around the turn of the millennium.

Emergence and dissemination

The documentation contains on Super8 film footage is the only surviving cinematic document this time in Goa, the scenarios were filmed by Cleo Odzer. The documentary film received no funding or support from the German television channels that the subject in the presented form did not want to accept.

But the film gained increasing popularity in the Internet.

It was created in December 1999 and in January 2000 with an estimated budget of U.S. $ 20,000. The film was distributed in 2004 by the Japanese company Nowonmedia on DVD.