On this day in movie history - Mindwalk (1990)

Mindwalk

directed by Bernt Capra,

written by Bernt Capra, Floyd Byars and Fritjof Capra,

based on the book The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada, on September 9, 1990.

Music by Philip Glass.

 

Cast:

Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes, Jean Boursin, Gabrielle Danchick, Jeanne Van Phue, Penny White.

Recommended reading:

Mindwalk: The Screenplay
30th Anniversary Edition

by Fritjof Capra, Floyd Byars and Bernt Capra.

Published by Brass Tacks Press.

Published 2021.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0982014066

ISBN-13: 978-0982014066

Description:

Since its release in 1991, Mindwalk has become a cult classic, showing not only in theaters, but in college courses and business seminars. Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard play the leads who meet on the tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in France and enter into a philosophical discussion.

Social and environmental concerns are at the heart of the film, which proposes alternative solutions based on Systems Theory, along with insights into Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics.

The film is based on Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point (1982).

The Turning Point
Science, Society, and the Rising Culture

by Fritjof Capra.

Published by Random House Publishing Group.
First published 1982.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0553345729
ISBN-13: 978-0553345728

Description:
“After a time of decay comes the turning point.” – I Ching.

A compelling vision of a new reality, a reconciliation of science and the human spirit for a future that will work.

The dynamics underlying the major problems of our time – cancer, crime, pollution, nuclear power, inflation, the energy shortage – are all the same. We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change. Now distinguished scientist Fritjof Capra gives us that vision, a holistic paradigm of science and spirit.

“This splendid and thoughtful book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the place of science and metascience in our contemporary culture. Those who enjoyed Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics should not expect a sequel; this is a much more ambitious book that attempts and succeeds in presenting a whole worldview from the viewpoint of a committed and experienced physicist who also writes from within the North American culture…. It is unusually detailed and thorough in its inclusion of the conventional and the alternative approaches to topics ranging from ecology through medicine and psychology to economics. It is at once scholarly and easy to read.” – Jim Lovelock, New Scientist.

Liv Ullman, on books:

Books have always been living things to me.

Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little.

When I have been perplexed,

looking for something I could not define to myself,

a certain book has turned up,

approached me as a friend would.

And between its cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

- Liv Ullmann.