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Set against the rich, color-soaked backdrop of America's rural landscapes, Alex Mar's lyrical first work is a bold and artful documentary that braids together the stories of three young Americans who have chosen to sacrifice comforts in order to embrace the fringes of alternative religion. Mar takes a personal, visually lush approach, enveloping the viewer in the subjects experience of their controversial faiths through their own words.
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Reviews
"Alex Mar's AMERICAN MYSTIC is a poem of a film"
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
"Mar's sensitive approach yields a poetic film about people's struggle to maintain their deeply held beliefs in a world that doesn't share them."
IFC, THE INDEPENDENT EYE
"Mar's film is lyrical, drenched in a purely American atmosphere of rural and rustic wonders"
TWITCH
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