You Are What You Eat (1968)
75 min
A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.
- Release date
- September 24, 1968
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- John Simon
Soundtrack
- Teenage Fair · Rosko
- Moments of Soft Persuasion · Peter Yarrow
- Silly Girl · Peter Yarrow
- Desert Moog Music · John Simon
- Be My Baby · Tiny Tim
- The Family Dog · John Herold
- The Nude Dance · Hamsa El Din
- My Name Is Jack · John Simon
- I Got You Babe · Tiny Tim / Eleanor Baruchian
- You Are What You Eat · Paul Butterfield
- Beach Music · John Simon
- The Wabe · Peter Yarrow / John Simon
Cast
- Luana Anders as Self
- Paul Butterfield as Self
- Del Close as Self
- David Crosby as Self
- Rick Danko as Self
- Bonnie Dewberry as Self
- Dave Dixon as Self
- Family Dog as Themselves
- Electric Flag as Themselves
- Carl Franzoni as Self
Crew
- Barry Feinstein · Director
- Michael Butler · Producer
- Barry Feinstein · Producer
- Peter Yarrow · Producer
- John Simon · Composer
- Barry Feinstein · Cinematographer
- Howard Alk · Editor