This film represents the only work created by the NCM (New Militant Cinema). Conceived and directed by Giancarlo Buonfino. The film was shown on a 16mm projector in universities, factories and meetings. Although it was a self-produced film, its quality was professional for its time, G. Buonfino worked for over a year to make it, learning to use stop-motion animation on a large 35mm "vertical" film made available to him by Giulio Cingoli's ORTIFILMSTUDIO.
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for.
The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right.
At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast.
A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a couple streaming through the forest: direct looks into the camera, cross-fades, multiple exposures, playing with sunlight, shadows and shapes.
