Go Further
An Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on Tofu is how Ron Mann describes his
film. This comment is a reference to Tom Wolfes book about Ken Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest and his legendary, drug-filled bus trip across the USA with the Merry Pranksters at the end of the sixties. More than thirty years on, Hollywood actor and environmental activist Woody Harrelson sets out on the same journey. For his trip, Harrelson and a group of friends known as the Merry Hempsters chartered an environmentally-friendly bus and set off along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Harrelson last seen fighting for the legalisation of marihuana in Ron Manns previous documentary, GRASS is convinced that social change is always the result of an individuals efforts. For this reason, Harrelsons bus trip is full of encounters with people whose approach to life and making a living are somehow exemplary. Hence, we meet a paper manufacturer who doesnt chop down trees; an organic farmer who regards the environment as his natural partner and a university lecturer who teaches other activists how to use humour as a strategic weapon. For Woody Harrelson, the attitudes of these people are the first steps in the right direction towards improving the current state of the planet. Naturally, we need to go a lot further, says Harrelson in this documentary, at the end of which the viewer is comforted to learn that No hippies were harmed in the making of this movie.
film. This comment is a reference to Tom Wolfes book about Ken Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest and his legendary, drug-filled bus trip across the USA with the Merry Pranksters at the end of the sixties. More than thirty years on, Hollywood actor and environmental activist Woody Harrelson sets out on the same journey. For his trip, Harrelson and a group of friends known as the Merry Hempsters chartered an environmentally-friendly bus and set off along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Harrelson last seen fighting for the legalisation of marihuana in Ron Manns previous documentary, GRASS is convinced that social change is always the result of an individuals efforts. For this reason, Harrelsons bus trip is full of encounters with people whose approach to life and making a living are somehow exemplary. Hence, we meet a paper manufacturer who doesnt chop down trees; an organic farmer who regards the environment as his natural partner and a university lecturer who teaches other activists how to use humour as a strategic weapon. For Woody Harrelson, the attitudes of these people are the first steps in the right direction towards improving the current state of the planet. Naturally, we need to go a lot further, says Harrelson in this documentary, at the end of which the viewer is comforted to learn that No hippies were harmed in the making of this movie.
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Margaret von Schiller, Ron Mann, Steve Clark
Director Ron Mann with Panorama programme coordinator Margaret von Schiller and actor Steve Clark before the premiere of Go Further
Go Further · Panorama · Feb 07, 2004
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Ron Mann, Wieland Speck
Go Further: Director Ron Mann visits the Panorama Office and checks the programme with Wieland Speck
Go Further · Panorama · Feb 07, 2004
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Ron Mann
Go Further · Panorama · Feb 07, 2004
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Steve Clark
Go Further · Panorama · Feb 07, 2004
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Ron Mann (Director), Steve Clark (Actor)
Go Further
Panorama · Press Conference · Feb 12, 2004