Morley Markson

This important ideological comment on the radical American youth culture embodies its values even in structure and style. A most creatively edited montage of the "struggle between life and death culture in America", it mingles Allen Ginsberg, Buckminster Fuller, Abbie Hoffman, and John Lennon with newsreels, subliminal effects, doctored TV images, the A-bomb, the Chicago Trial, the matrix of the new generation's sensibility -- to create a "psychedelic" equation of fact and metaphysics. (Amos Vogel)

Monkeys in the Attic centres on two couples living in a sumptuously kinky Toronto household. The clowning and crazy Wanda and Eric are wild in fantasy and sexuality, while Elaine and Frederick appear to be on the verge of separation; tired of Frederick's bullying, Elaine retreats into a world of alcohol and pills, resenting Frederick and the freakiness of the other couple.