Paradise Now (1970)

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 Made on videotape with expressionist colouring injected by electronic means this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original No documentary record could have done it justice