Short film
The Family
1993 · 28 min
An unsettling, quietly intense look at people pushing emotional extremes, watched with the unease of glimpsing something raw and private.
- Directed by
- Bob Quinn
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jenny James
- Overview
- Bob Quinn’s seminal documentary, deemed too disturbing for television viewers and not broadcast until 10 years after its completion, reveals life inside the Atlantis Commune at Burtonport, Co. Donegal where its members, The Screamers, led by English woman Jenny James, practised Reichian methods of extreme emotional self-expression.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, identity, trauma, healing
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bob Quinn
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jenny James