Vernal Equinox
Short film by Robert Allen Schnitzer as a college student, exploring the workings of the unconscious mind, set against a commentary of the popular culture of late 1960s New York.
Robert Allen Schnitzer
Director
Also Directed by Robert Allen Schnitzer
A student film made by Robert Allen Schnitzer in 1969
Joni gets persuaded to enter a bikini contest by her friends and likes the attention. She talks to another contestant, Harlow, who suggests she try exotic dancing at Kandyland, where she works. Joni gets fed up with her job at the dry cleaner's, and boyfriend Frank won't commit, so she gets a job at Kandyland. She finds others doing drugs and getting abused, and tries to make her new job, her lingering attraction to Frank, and her strong friendship with Harlow coexist.
When a deranged woman and her carny boyfriend plot to abduct her biological daughter from the girl's foster parents, the foster mother is plagued by premonitions and psychic visions.
In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track.
A documentary film by Robert Allen Schnitzer, documenting the 1969 occupation of Stony Brook University by Students for a Democratic Society - the largest anti-war student activist organisation in the US at the time.
