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Using all archival materials, director Matt Wolf takes viewers back to 1988 Los Angeles in Another Hayride, his 18-minute short film. As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a "spiritual boot camp" for healing called the Hayride. Her weekly meetings drew dozens, then hundreds of gay men who were dealing with the deadly pandemic. As hope for life-saving medications would remain a long shot for years, Hay promised that they could overcome AIDS through self-love. Some said this early new age wellness movement was harmful quackery. Others who were suf...

The Counterculture Collective Who Wanted to Save the Earth Matt Wolf’s new documentary about the Biosphere 2 experiment in Arizona shows the uneasy relationship between capitalism, utopia, and reality television. Interviews - January 14, 2021 For more than a decade, the filmmaker Matt Wolf has won acclaim for his meticulously crafted documentaries that reveal lost histories through deep dives into media archives. His focus is often on radical outsiders whose projects range from the quixotic to the paranoiac. His first film, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008), is an exp...