The Persistence of Community

VHS, 30 min.

A documentary film of the Mennonite community near Harrisburg, VA, records a "tribal" community's responses to social change and pressures. Old commitments are being challenged and rewritten as individuals find new ways of accommodating moral imperatives and worldly desires. Even the most progressive Mennonites appear to find in their "order" an antidote to the alienation of modern society. These people, the film implies, may yet have something the rest of us could look into.