Host a screening and discussion

How it works

Everyone watches the film individually, in their own time, within a window you set. Then you meet — in person or by video call — and the discussion can begin.

This simplicity comes by design, and it clears away the two things that normally derail such evenings. No public screening takes place, so you need no performance licence. And nobody has to book a room, rent a projector, or lose an evening to logistics.

1. Set two dates. A viewing window of about ten days, and a date for the discussion.
2. Invite your group. Announce the discussion date and ask everyone to watch the film beforehand. If your group does not speak English, point them to Vimeo, where all nine subtitle languages appear.
3. Hold the discussion. Plan for 60 to 75 minutes. Choose the questions below that fit your group.
4. Tell us how it went. We collect what works and what doesn’t land.

Discussion questions

Three sets of questions, for three different audiences. The film supports all three readings.

One note from experience: the later questions in each set tend to generate real conversation. The first one simply serves as a warm-up.

For therapists

Structural integrators, massage therapists, physiotherapists, osteopaths

• Rolf worked from touch, inference, and observation, with no imaging available. What does that say about the relationship between trained perception and instruments? What does your own hand tell you that no scan does?
• She treated gravity as an organising principle, not just one factor among many. Does that hold up in your own practice, or has it quietly become metaphor?
• The film shows how she kept revising her thinking across fifty years. Where in your own work do you still operate from a position you inherited but never examined?

For general audiences and those curious about fascia

Movement, yoga, Pilates, fitness, wellness

• Anatomical dissection removed fascia to expose the muscle beneath — people cleared it away as packing material. A tissue present in every specimen remained functionally invisible for a century. What does that say about how a field’s methods shape what it can notice at all?
• Fascia now counts as a common term. Almost no one who uses it knows the research field has a founder. Why, do you think, does credit go to the idea but not to the person behind it?
• Rolf worked on this for fifty years before it came into fashion. What gets dismissed today that we may soon rediscover?

For academic audiences and documentary enthusiasts

University courses, somatic psychology, libraries, history of science

• Rolf apparently had the essentials right and largely lacked any way to demonstrate it. What distinguishes a correct position from a merely defensible one, and how should a field handle the gap between them?
• Her intellectual context ranged from Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry to Reich, Perls, and the human-potential movement. Did this breadth fuel her insight, cause her dismissal, or both?
• A woman with a 1920 doctorate in biochemistry lands outside the institutions and inside an alternative-therapy tradition. How much of that path comes from her ideas, and how much from the reception open to her?

Materials

Available now: a print-ready poster in A4 and US Letter, plus press materials that include a dated biographical timeline suitable for handouts.

In the works: a guide for organisers, a printed discussion guide, templates for social-media invitations, and a short video introduction from the director. If you would like these, write to us, and we will send them once we finish them — and tell us what else would help.

Continuing education and institutional licences

Two situations call for a licence from the distributor instead of the arrangement described above.

Accredited continuing-education events. A certified professional training event does not count as a private viewing, regardless of how the viewing gets organised.

Institutional acquisition. Universities, libraries, and educational streaming platforms should acquire the film properly. Contact Random Media, which holds the educational and non-theatrical rights. Write to us too, and we will make the connection.