documentary film: "Soma - An Anarchist Therapy"
series: Houston Independent Media Center free screenings
Rice Cinema (University and Stockton Drive, Entrance #8)
May 11th through 14th (thurs - sun)
April 27, 2006 (Press Release) --
watch the preview: houston.indymedia.org/uploads/octoberpreviewsmall.mpg
still image: http://nickcooper.com/footsie.jpg
screener copy: DVD available
Half-blinded from 12 years of torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, and with difficulty walking, 79 year-old Roberto Freire completes his life’s work. He created soma (body) therapy thirty years ago, and spent the second half of his life developing it. Incorporating the work of Wilhelm Reich, the martial art / dance capoeira angola, and anarchism, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper, local musician and indymedia volunteer, travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.
Slingshot Article about Soma: http://slingshot.tao.ca/displaybi.php?0083007
still image: http://nickcooper.com/footsie.jpg
screener copy: DVD available
Half-blinded from 12 years of torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, and with difficulty walking, 79 year-old Roberto Freire completes his life’s work. He created soma (body) therapy thirty years ago, and spent the second half of his life developing it. Incorporating the work of Wilhelm Reich, the martial art / dance capoeira angola, and anarchism, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper, local musician and indymedia volunteer, travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.
Slingshot Article about Soma: http://slingshot.tao.ca/displaybi.php?0083007
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