I, Apostate

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers. A pilgrimage of memory, history, ancestry, and place. An experimental documentary that interrogates and explores the seeds of the filmmaker’s own religious indoctrination and eventual apostasy. He revisits the European landscapes where his ancestors were converted to Mormonism in the 1800s. He examines the desert places they colonized in the American West. He returns to Brazil and interviews individuals he had converted to the faith twenty years ago. Part diary film and part surrealist essay, the film deals with the experience of conversion and indoctrination, the pain of apostasy, and the discomfort and contentment from never fully breaking free.

Year: 2018
Director: Jeremy Moss
Duration: 61 min
Country: United States
Language: English, Portuguese

Credits

Directors: Jeremy Moss
Writers: Jeremy Moss
Producers: Jeremy Moss
Producers: Leigh Moss
Key Cast: Paul Harrold
Key Cast: Pamela Vail
Key Cast: Leigh Moss
Key Cast: Micah Thompson
Key Cast: Megan Thompson
Key Cast: Duane Sullivan
Key Cast: Christian Sullivan
Key Cast: Brad Macdonald
Key Cast: Maria Neves Lins
Key Cast: Christian Mateus Bandeira Correa
Key Cast: Leandro de Oliveira Teixeira