THE GILLIGAN MANIFESTO

At the height of the Cold War, just one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gilligan’s Island aired, depicting seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors must rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is a communist paradise. Narrated by Chicago Seven defendant Rennie Davis, The Gilligan Manifesto reveals that this was deliberate and the show’s creator surreptitiously inserted cutting jabs at democratic governance while showing that social harmony and survival require the abolition of private property and adherence to other Marxist principles.

 

SCREENINGS

November 16-22
LOS ANGELES

Laemmle Music Hall
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

https://www.laemmle.com/films/?title=gilligan&sort=title&limit=40

November 23-29
NEW YORK CITY

Cinema Village
22 East 12th street
New York, NY 10003

https://www.cinemavillage.com/

 

WATCH THE TRAILER

 

CREW:

Cevin Soling – Director, Producer, Writer

Joe Davenport – Editor, Storyboards

Rennie Davis – Narration

Tatiana Poliektova – Animation

Olga Poliektova – Animation

Aleksandra Nalepa – Illustrations

Jane Hazanov – Media Acquisitions

Mary Marchaigh – Research

Pat Farenga – Research

INTERVIEWS:

Sherwood Schwartz – Producer and Creator of Gilligan’s Island

Russell Johnson – “The Professor”

Dawn Wells – “Mary Ann”

Dan Albright – Professor of Literature, Harvard

Loren Graham – Professor of the History of Science, Harvard

Don Ostrowski – Research Advisor in the Social Sciences, Harvard