BEFORE STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, AND BLADE RUNNER, THERE WAS...
The story of a groundbreaking, lost, 1970 dystopian sci-fi movie about environmental collapse is told in this new book by author and journalist Chris Campion (Some New Kind of Kick, The War is Here) and the film’s writer-director Anthony Foutz.
Shot in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, and starring Gram Parsons, Michelle Phillips, Prince Stash, Nudie Cohn, and Julian Jones (the son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones), Saturation 70 has been described as an “ecological horror fantasy” and a “counterculture Wizard of Oz”. The film was to feature advanced special effects by VFX pioneer Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running, Blade Runner).
Containing a wealth of never-before-seen photographs, imagery, and script fragments from Foutz’s archive, and interviews with cast and crew, Saturation 70: A Vision Past of the Future Foretold is part counterculture fable, part historical record and work of cultural archaeology, reconstructing a film that exists, and can only exist, in the imagination.
Deluxe hardback, 10x12", 400 pages. Coming Fall 2026.
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CHRIS CAMPION is a British writer and journalist, based in Joshua Tree.
His work has been published in The Guardian, Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and Vice. He is the co-author of the Kid Congo Powers memoir Some New Kind of Kick (Hachette), and the editor, designer, and author of The War Is Here: Newark 1967 (ZE Books).
Hollywood born ANTHONY FOUTZ, the son of a Walt Disney pioneer, worked variously for over 40 years, as a director, scriptwriter, script doctor, and first assistant director, alongside titanic film world figures including Marco Ferreri, Gillo Pontecorvo,Orson Welles, Carlo Ponti, Ralph Bakshi, and producers Gray Frederickson and Al Ruddy (The Godfather).
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"Far-out tale"
"A lost classic"
"A technological tribal throw-down"
