American Mystic (2010)

Documentary about three young people each a member of a fringe religious community who have separated themselves from mainstream America in order to live immersed in their faiths Set against depressed but quintessentially American landscapes the former revivalist district of upstate New York old mining country in the mountains of northern California and the stark badlands of South Dakota the film interlaces three very intimate apolitical portraits of young individuals trying to lead more extraordinary mystical lives