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