Dirty Bloody Hippies

Starting in the questioning times of the late 60s, many New Zealanders began leaving town to set up their own communities, in search of alternative ways to live. This then and now documentary travels to communes long gone and still active, and tracks down many of those involved. Tim Shadbolt describes a time when people questioned "everything fearlessly ... without reserve and without restraint". The back to the land approach brought both satisfaction and fatigue. Dirty Bloody Hippies played to full houses at NZ's Documentary Edge Festival.

We were really a pampered generation, and so we had that ability for that short timeframe in history to really question everything fearlessly, and without reserve and without constraint.

– Tim Shadbolt

Key Cast & Crew

Rachel House

Narrator

Stephen McCurdy

Composer

Tim Shadbolt

Subject

Tim Woodhouse

Editor

Rewa Harre

Camera

Dan Salmon

Director, Writer