Living Together

Overview

"Visits four cooperative "living experiments" in Portland, Oregon during the 1970s, where cohabitants form alternative relationships to the nuclear family. Co-op members discuss their reasons for choosing to live in communal and multi-family households and frame this lifestyle as an answer to urban segregation and isolation, materialism, the need to conserve resources and reduce waste, forging lifelong commitments, and some of the challenges of raising children.

Production

The Center for the Moving Image, PSU