David: off and on

Duration: 42

Year Published: 1972

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A portrait of the filmmaker's brother and his struggles, with school, society and drugs. David talks about his troubled adolescence, conflicts with his stepfather, his disciplinary problems at school and growing dependency on drugs. Coolidge integrates family photographs, special effects and documentary techniques to evoke her brother's childhood, his acid-dropping Height-Ashbury experiences and his years in mental institutions.

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