Drop City is a feature-length documentary film about an experimental community that blended practices of art, architecture, and sustainable living in ways that came to define a global counterculture.



Drop City’s founders called themselves droppers in reference to their original and self-stylized form of conceptual art. The term Drop Art was coined well before the era-branding slogan Turn on, tune in, drop out.



The Droppers’ vision of life-as-art was evidenced in their iconographic dwellings, which were based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in fractal geometric designs and solar energy. The Droppers were opposed to work-for-pay and used salvaged materials, including culled lumber and chopped-out car tops. In 1966, Buckminster Fuller honored Drop City with his Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.”

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Drop City
A documentary film by Joan Grossman & Tom McCourt
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