Jodi Wille

WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS DOCUMENTARY

Los Angeles Magazine - Alien Friends, a Space Cadillac and Elijah Wood Take Over the Los Angeles Theatre Sunday

“Welcome Space Brothers is the latest film from Jodi Wille, who made waves with her first doc on another psychedelic spiritual collective The Source Family.”— Chris Nichols

Deadline - EXCLUSIVE - Very Strange But Oddly True: Documentary ‘Welcome Space Brothers’ Explores Unarius Group That Claimed To Channel Extraterrestrials

“EP (Elijah) Wood says, “As our first entry into the documentary space, Welcome Space Brothers has all the qualities we look for in a film: compelling characters, stunning music and visuals and incredible heart. At a time when we humans are examining our relationship to the UFO phenomenon, its hopeful message is as welcome as the Space Brothers themselves.”

Artillery - FILM: Welcome Space Brothers Review

“...it was their collectively-authored low-budget audiovisual fabulousness that set them apart from the UFO cult herd (I’m looking at you, L. Ron!). Wille has referred to UNARIUS as Warhol’s Factory ‘but with the objective of spiritual healing and transformation.’ It’s a vision of healing, acceptance, peace, cooperation, and hope, expressed through an outpouring of unbridled creative energy. If that spells crazy, beam me up!”

Film Threat - Welcome Space Brothers Review

“If I didn’t know Jodi Wille’s film, Welcome Space Brothers, was a documentary, I’d swear it was a WTF, insane, sci-fi tale of weirdness. The story of Ruth is fascinating….It will also be a nice flex of that healthy skepticism muscle in your mind.”

Moviegoing Rocks - Welcome Space Brothers review

“There are lots of colors, lots of lights, lots of DIY (do it yourself) art, lots of creativity, and lots of heart. When the spaceships ended up not landing on their property, I felt as disappointed as the collective was.”

48 Hills - Welcome Space Brothers Review

“...digs into the dirt of the personality conflicts that eventually rose between them. But it primarily finds a disarming, whimsical purity of intention in the one rare quasi-religious “cult” among many that did not seem to exploit its followers for sex, money, or power-tripping purposes.…”

PODCASTS

The Witch Wave podcast interview with Jodi Wille, Director of "Welcome Space Brothers" and "The Source Family"

Death Valley Girls podcast # 70 - Jodi Wille

Vintage Annals Archive podcast Ep: 38 - Jodi Wille (Filmmaker, Curator, and Book Publisher) Focus on The Book - Family: The Source Family Scrapbook and The Unarius Academy

SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK RELEASE

Wastoids podcast - The Source Family: Jason Woodbury interview with Isis Aquarian and Jodi Wille

LA Times - The surprising afterlife of a ’70s L.A. cult: How the Source Family became hot IP in 2023

Atlas Obscura - The Cult Roots of Health Food in America

Guardian UK - Father Yod: the 1970s cult leader whose wild psychedelia was more suited to Disneyland than dive bars

Dublab podcast- Contact Wave episode with Jodi Wille and Isis Aquarian

UNARIUS SPECIAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

Blum and Poe website - Jim Shaw and Jodi Wille in conversation video

Hyperallergic - A Summer Series of Comedy, Improv, Film, and Performance at Blum & Poe

Los Angeleno - Unarius Night! With Jodi Wille at Zebulon

LA Mag - The Best Things to Do This Week in L.A.

WOUB - Jodi Wille interview for Athens Int’l Film Festival Unarius screening

Interview Magazine - The Source Family

USA Today - Trippy New Doc on The Source Family

NY Times - How Commune Became Cult

NPR - Bullseye Podcast with Jesse Thorn, Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos: Mel Brooks and the Source Family

Nashville Scene - Astonishing Swinging '60s doc The Source Family tells an epic saga of health food, sex, robbery and garage rock

CRITICAL PRAISE FOR THE SOURCE FAMILY

Wall Street Journal “…a strange and beautiful parable about the rise, fall and surprisingly influential afterlife of a 60’s love cult.”

The New York Times Style Magazine “Such a pure expression of an archetypal 1970s psychedelic subculture that it feels like an ornate and elaborate invention.”

USA Today “Given its subject matter — a strange, rock 'n' roll '70s cult — I expected The Source Family to be trippy. Nevertheless, this documentary still managed to blow my mind.”

SF Weekly “Beginning with a minute-and-a-half slow zoom into Yod’s intense eyes, the movie does not pass judgment from 2013, but rather tries to show how it all made sense in 1973.”

Seattle Weekly “We know how this story is supposed to end, and yet we’re wrong about that..an oddly affirmative and sympathetic portrait of the disciples, if not the guru, during an era when many were casting about for alternative forms of spirituality.”

San Francisco Bay Guardian “…engrossing…a great feat…”

Vice “…outrageously spaced-out drama…”

Badass Digest “…mind-blowing in the extreme.”