Three Miles North of Molkom

I saw this film a few years ago at the Melbourne Film Festival. The audience loved it. I found it hilarious and unforgettable. It's a 'Fish out of Water' Documentary about a young rugby player from Sydney who is sent to a New Age Alternative Lifestyle Festival in Molkom, Sweden. There have been many failed attempts to parody the 'New Age' movement but this film demonstrates once and for all that it parodies itself. It also manages to do it with compassion. I have been waiting for a distributor to pick it up here in Australia and I've tried to buy it on DVD. I notice that it has recently been exhibited in the UK and would love to know how it went. It will be a great shame if this film doesn't find a big audience. Google it and see what the critics had to say.

I was lucky enough to be invited to the premiere in London a few years ago and it was the first time I saw people from the audience actually falling off their seats in laughter.

The Australian protagonist is a gold mine, if you can understand his accent. This is a great example of what a good documentary one can make with a great idea, very little money and a lot of luck (if the Ozzy hadn't mistakenly ended up there, there would be no movie).

Really recommended.

I guess only on DVD at this point but well worth it.

Buy it if you can and support these guys. They made it with almost nothing.

I was lucky enough to see Three Miles North of Molkom at the Edinburgh International Film Festival screening on the 29th June.

Along with Encounters at the End of the World, Standard Operating Procedure and To See If I'm Smiling it was one of the most interesting (and funny!) films I saw.

The directors Rob and Corrina were kind enough to spend time answering questions after the screening which they answered with honesty and humour.

Nick the Australian rugby coach was also there and he's exactly the same in person as he was in the film. Anyone who wears shorts and a t-shirt in Edinburgh in June is a legend in my book.

Rob, Corrina and Nick also spent time chatting to people outside who didn't get the chance to ask a question at the screening.

Nick did say that Rob and Corrina suggested he do some things for the cameras - the trip in the plane with Swami G is the most obvious but the film doesn't suffer because of this.

Hopefully the film will have a wider release so more people can see it as it's worth the price of admission alone to see an instructor ask one of the group to stop him running at them with their mind (I'm not spoiling anything if I say this didn't go entirely according to plan!)

Check out www.threemilesnorthofmolkom.com for more information.

Mix one dose of hippie-era mumbo-jumbo with equal doses of slow movements and sheepy smiles. Garnish with some random symbols from Eastern philosophy. Voilà! You've created a No Mind Festival: The dumbest occurrence in the history of the universe!

This is a cringe-fest like no other. It's hard not to feel sorry for the participants in this documentary, because they seem to think that what they're doing is very important and extremely deep, when in reality it's just really, really dumb.

More than anything, this film is a testament to the spiritual illiteracy of modern man. As such, it could be considered an interesting anthropological study. But the cringe... It burns...

At first I thought I was watching a parody and I laughed to death when the people talked or when they trembled in delirium on the ground.But as the movie evolved I was almost certain that it was in fact a documentary of shorts and this realization was most shocking. Of course I guess everybody has met one or two such "spiritual" people and has come across at least some trendy "spiritual" movement (yoga,tandra,christianity or whatever)that waxes and wanes in time in hers life. That this kind of movements are constantly present though( with different names ) from before WWII (see the excellent documentary "The Magic Mountain") through the hippie movement and the new-age version of our days,really is a proof that the Neanderthals actually never disappeared, they live among us (and they vote),Flying Spaghetti monster save us.Because otherwise it is not possible that Homo Sapiens beings of the 21th century believe to such things. So I give it 10/10 for amazing implicit proof that the Neanderthal is still alive