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 begins. Because no public screening takes place, 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, which carries all nine subtitle languages.
3. Hold the discussion. Plan for 60 to 75 minutes, using 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 audiences; the film supports all three readings. One note from experience: the later questions in each set generate the real conversation – the first 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 – and what does your own hand tell you that no scan does?
• She treated gravity as an organising principle, not one factor among many. Does that hold up in your practice, or has it quietly become metaphor?
• 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

• Dissection cleared fascia away as packing material, and a tissue present in every specimen stayed invisible for a century. What does that say about how a field’s methods shape what it can notice?
• Fascia now counts as a common term, yet almost no one who uses it knows the research field has a founder. Why 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?
• 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 (A4 and US Letter) and press materials including a dated biographical timeline suitable for handouts. In the works: an organisers’ guide, a printed discussion guide, social-media invitation templates and a short video introduction from the director – write to us if you want these, and tell us what else would help.

Continuing education and institutional licences

Two situations call for a licence from the distributor instead: accredited continuing-education events, since a certified professional training does not count as a private viewing however you organise it; and institutional acquisition by universities, libraries and educational streaming platforms. Contact Random Media, which holds the educational and non-theatrical rights – and write to us too, so we can make the connection.