Dick Scoppettone

A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.

The incredible story of Raffaele Minichiello, a life punctuated by earthquakes, attacks, wars, personal tragedies and troubles of all sorts, but always under the banner of an irreducible desire to live, or rather, to survive.