In his ambitious Breathing Together, Markson links together American countercultural heroes, visionaries, artists, and revolutionaries in a collagist synthesis, revealing the soul and essence of a new culture in confrontation with the old. Hailed by film critic and historian Amos Vogel as "probably the most important document produced anywhere on the American counterculture of the late Sixties," the film pursues the connecting thread of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and then moves outward into dozens of candid portraits of such notables as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Buckminster Fuller, Claes Oldenberg, William Kunstler, Fred Hampton, and thousands of students.