M.C. Richards: The Fire Within (DVD)

Format: DVD
Run Time: 60 minutes
Studio: Kane-Lewis Productions (2003)
Language: English
Dimensions: 7.5" x 5.4" x 0.6"
Shipping Weight: 0.2 lbs.

M.C. Richards' extraordinary career, stretching from Black Mountain College to Creation Spirituality, from Rudolf Steiner advocate to philosophical artist, continues in spite of her death in 1999. In front of our very eyes we see M.C. engaging in contemplative questioning regarding the nature of art, imagination, wholeness, community, and our place in the cosmos. In this thought-provoking documentary, you hear from a cadre of her followers as they carry on her important work of inspiring people to live creatively, to believe in themselves, to experience the sensuality of existence. Author of the underground classic, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, and Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America, M.C. was a poet, philosopher, potter, and painter. But above all she was a teacher.

The film features: Marjory Bankson, Paulus Berensohn, Julia Connor, Merce Cunningham, Adriana Diaz, Martin Duberman, Howard Evans, Matthew Fox, Gertrude Hughes, Karen Karnes. George Kokis, Judith Malina, Amy Evans McClure, Arthur Penn, and Robert Turner.