Three Miles North of Molkom

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Three Miles North of Molkom
Directed byRobert Cannan
Corinna McFarlane
Produced byRobert Cannan
Corinna McFarlane
CinematographyJoseph Russell
Release date
  • 18 September 2009 (2009-09-18)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom

Three Miles North of Molkom is a 2008 documentary film directed by Corinna Villari-McFarlane and Robert Cannan. [1] [2] It was nominated in the Best British Documentary category for the British Independent Film Awards 2008. [3] [4]

Contents

It follows seven participants of the 2007 No Mind Festival [5] at Ängsbacka, a course center located in Molkom, Sweden. This yearly New Age event lasts one or two weeks, has a thousand participants, and is claimed to be the largest alternative festival in Northern Europe. [6] [7]

The activities shown in the film include tree hugging (each one choosing his own tree), firewalking, nude swimming, sweat lodge, hugging, Tantric sex, singing, dancing, talks in "sharing circles". There is also an exercise in defending oneself against a physical attack using psychic energy. [8] [9]

The portrayed participants are:

Production

Three Miles North of Molkom is a low-budget film. Permission to film at the festival came only four weeks in advance. The crew consisted of the two directors and two camera men. Use is made of a Fig Rig. While other groups at the festival are formed at random, this group consisted of people willing and accepted to be in the film. Six of the seven participants were selected during the first six hours of the festival. Nick initially did not care whether he was filmed or not, he just wanted to hang out with the crew because they were the closest thing to normality around him. Regina Lund, who had announced that she was interested, was accepted after her arrival on the second day. 150 hours of film was shot. There was no time to watch the rushes during the festival.[ original research? ]

References

  1. "Three Miles North Of Molkom, review". The Telegraph. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  2. Keslassy, Elsa (12 January 2016). "Dan Mazer Boards Studiocanal's 'Three Miles North Of Molkom'". Variety. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  3. "Three Miles North Of Molkom · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 11 October 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  4. "Corina McFarlane". Festival International du Film de Marrakech. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  5. "No Mind Festival - Ängsbacka Kursgård | Course center". en.angsbacka.se. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016.
  6. "Sweden's No Mind Festival - Three Miles North of Molkom". The List. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  7. "Three Miles North Of Molkom". UNCUT. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  8. 1 2 Bradshaw, Peter (17 September 2009). "Three Miles North of Molkom | Film review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  9. "Three Miles North of Molkom". New Internationalist. 2 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  10. "Three Miles North of Molkom | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2020.