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Taylor Camp

May 29, 2010 7:30p

Produced by Wehrheim Productions


Taylor Camp
At the Aloha Theatre
For more information go to www.taylorcampkauai.com.

  • Saturday May 29, 2010 at 7:30pm

Patron Advisory: This film contains nudity and may not be suitable for all ages.

Open Seating (No Assigned Seats)
Tickets Available at the door and online here.
$10

Patron Advisory: This film contains nudity and may not be suitable for all ages.

Q&A with director Robert C. Stone after the screening.

DVDs and Books will be available for purchase.

In 1969, thirteen young mainlanders–refugees from campus riots, war protests and police brutality–fled to Kauai. Before long this little tribe of men, women and children were arrested and sentenced to ninety days hard labor for having no money and no home. Island resident Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out the group and invited them to camp on his vacant ocean front land–then left them on their own, without any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to this clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village at the end of the road on the island’s North Shore. 



In 1977, after condemning the village to make way for a State park, government officials torched the tree houses, leaving little but ashes and memories of “the best days of our lives”. 



TAYLOR CAMP reveals a community that created order without rules, rejecting materialism for the healing power of nature. We come to understand the significance of Taylor Camp’s eight-year existence through interviews made 30-years later after the film makers tracked down the campers, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them.

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This is the final festival cut of TAYLOR CAMP—a much improved film from the previous cuts screened in 2008 and 2009—a faster, tighter edit, with new interviews and more historic footage – 90 minutes.