Out & About with Brewer & Berg is a unique form of genre bending filmmaking. It's where Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell meet Dan Rowan and Dean Martin. It's where "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" meets Carlos Castaneda and David Attenborough. It's where "My Dinner with André" meets the "On the Road" films with Crosby and Hope. Replete with riveting graphics, insightful  quotations and a powerful  music track, the film is as humorous and entertaining as it is inspirational and uplifting.  

This leading edge film is an authentic "hero's journey" documenting the amazing serendipitous adventures of gay shamans, Michael Brewer and Thomas Alan Berg, whom we meet frolicking through spectacular, flower-filled meadows high in the Swiss Alps. They begin at Carl Jung's  home on Lake Zurich, where they invoke the great man's spirit to guide them on their vision quest to discover a new mythology, one vast enough to celebrate the true multidimensional significance of life on Earth today, and the role of gay people in it. They introduce Carl Jung's concepts of archetypes and the collective consciousness and how they powerfully influence our daily lives today.

The adventure then takes Tom and Michael to Lenzburg Castle in Switzerland , where with irony and panache they discuss how society was broken into two classes in the Middle Ages: the rulers and the ruled. A power kaleidoscope of imagery shows how this system of class separation has historically led to subjugation and the incessant war we know today.

Tom and Michael then head for Rome where they walk through the Forum contemplating the meaning of power. At the Coliseum they are struck by the direct correlation between the Coliseum games and their use to control the populace and today's new media, infotainment and the Bush administration. They move on to confront the Vatican, which Tom calls, " the Roman Empire in drag ". They are guided by the magnificent art in St. Peter's and find meaning in their search as gay men in opposition to Catholic dogma. Michael and Tom's amazing "declaration of spiritual independence" in St. Peter's Square is reminiscent of Martin Luther nailing his revolutionary ideas to the church door, a powerfulintroduction of a whole new paradigm in spiritual thinking.

After driving through gorgeous Tuscany, they arrive at the beautifully sculpted Tarot Park built by the French artist, Niki de St. Phalle. This vast sculptural landscape is a living tribute to the Tarot, an esoteric celebration of color and creativity. Michael and Tom provide a brilliant analysis of art's contribution to the ecstatic metaphysical vision of artists. The Tarot Park is the perfect backdrop Tom and Michael's discussion of how we create our own realities by launching "rockets of desire", conquering fear and then just "going for it". Michael talks about the power of the third eye and visualization, while Tom philosophizes about " life as God's art work ".

Following a relaxing day in the sun on the Italian Riviera (shown during the kaleidoscopic credits at the end of the film), a serendipitous rain storm "guides" Michael and Tom to visit the nearby town of Pisa . While taking refuge from the deluge the cathedral, baptistery and museums the art they see illustrates their discussions of wide ranging topics such as the power of art and imagery in religion and history, the path to enlightenment, the process of creating ones own life and Tom's dream of getting down from the cross of his childhood Catholic guilt. They round off their visit to Pisa with a tour the "Hall of Death", in which the contrast between pre- and post-Christian beliefs about death cause them to declare their right to live life to the fullest and "singing in the rain" no matter what!

On the way to their final destination, Florence, they have a groundbreaking discussion about childhood conditions and adapting to societal systems leads each of us away from our natural bliss. Once in Florence, Michael and Tom revel in the vast array of sculpted masterpieces celebrating the archetypal beauty of the male form, as celebrated by Florentine Renaissance artists. Tom and Michael's uplifting and insightfuldiscussion of art, spirituality, archetypal sexuality, "following one's bliss" and the gay liberation  movement all comes to an extraordinary climax when they visit Michelangelo's magnificent David. There, at the foot the David, they meet what appears to be the spirit of the David, alive and in person, right before their eyes. Their manifestation of David in the flesh is the perfect illustration and culmination of the metaphysical concepts they have discussed throughout the film.

Tom and Michael's amazing vision quest concludes on top the Duomo of Florence at sunset, when the lessons, gifts and epiphanies of their enlightening week burst upon them like rays of sunlight, accompanied by ringing bells. The rapture and inspiration of their adventure is evidence in their faces, leaving all who watch this film feeling uplifted.

Out & About with Brewer & Berg
A Multidimensional Travelogue

ends with previews of coming attractions, featuring Tom and Michael in Athens Greece, on the very spot where Plato and Socrates spoke, calling for a "spiritual counter revolution."

T his film documents a real-life multidimensional travelogue that takes its audience into realms of enlightenment, rapture and bliss usually reserved for the most reclusive of mystics. Michael Brewer and Tom Alan Berg capture on film what gay shamans have done throughout the ages, by opening doors of perception to a whole new way of looking at life, one that liberates minds from outdated belief systems.

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