Growing Interest

In recent years, critics and historians, such as Simon Sadler at the University of California, Davis, have taken a new look at Drop City.  Yet no documentary film about Drop City has been produced, despite the striking visual power of its art and architecture and the compelling stories of its residents.  The Droppers displayed endless ingenuity as they redefined the hard scrabble reality of the Western frontier. This film tells a story of whimsical innovation and the drive to create a new community on the scrapheap of a wasteful society.

 

About the Filmmakers

Joan Grossman is a media artist whose work has screened in more than 20 countries. Her award-winning film The Port of Last Resort was broadcast by HBO.


Tom McCourt is an associate professor of media at Fordham University with a background in audio and video production.  He is the author of books on public radio and the Internet’s transformation of the music industry.

Film Production

Drop City is a feature-length documentary film about an experimental community that blended practices of art, architecture, and sustainable living in ways that came to define a global counterculture.


This project is in production and most of our filming will be complete by the fall of 2009.

We also have acquired extensive film footage and photographs of Drop City that never have been seen publicly. 


Please watch our work-in-progress film.


If you have print, audio or visual materials about Drop City, or lived or visited there, please contact us.

Special Thanks

Sam Amato, Holly Baer, Steve Baer, Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn Bernofsky, Steve Bozzone, Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University, Andrew Chadwick, Jill Curl, John Curl, Carol DiJulio, Charles DiJulio, Elizabeth DiJulio, Christina DiJulio Piquette, Peter Douthit, Erin Elder, Dean Fleming, Jane Fudge, Jack Fulton, Hugh Gardner, Louis Girodo, Eric Gladstone, Gaye Goodman, Alastair Gordon, Mark Gottleib, Dan Grossman, Ed Heinz, Diane Hess, Barbara Ittner, Richard Kallweit, Terrence Jimmerson, Lloyd Kahn, Tom Lang, Paula Manini and the Colorodo Historical Society, Julie McCourt, Anne McNaughton, Tim Miller, Walt Odets, Jalal Quinn, Clark Richert, Susie Richert, Simon Sadler, Spencer Research Library at University of Kansas, Joseph Tarabino, Dan Thornbury, Peter Tooke, the Tortorellis, Fred Turner, and Judy Wiesner

A documentary film by Joan Grossman & Tom McCourt

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Partial funding provided by the

Graham Foundation

for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts