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Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa (2007)

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa poster
Directed by
Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows several people living in a remote desert area called the Mesa. It shows their daily routines and how they survive without modern conveniences far from towns.

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What happens

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa is a 2007 documentary written and directed by Jeremy Stulberg and Randy Stulberg. The film documents a loose-knit desert community in "the Mesa", five miles from the Rio Grande and 25 miles from the nearest town. The film was a 2007 entrant into the Slamdance Film Festival for Documentary Competition Features, and it has aired on The Sundance Channel. It won the "Best of the Southwest" award at the 2007 Santa Fe Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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