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Desert Cathedral (2014)

Desert Cathedral poster
Directed by
Travis Gutiérrez Senger
Genre
drama, mystery, thriller
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A real estate developer vanishes in the Southwest in 1992. He leaves behind VHS tapes for his employer and family, and the film uses found footage to show what happened.

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What happens

Desert Cathedral is a 2014 drama written, produced and directed by Travis Gutiérrez Senger. The film stars Lee Tergesen and Chaske Spencer, and won awards at festivals in New York, Manchester, and Naples. Utilizing found footage in a dramatic narrative, the film follows a broken real estate developer (Tergesen) who mysteriously disappears into the Southwest in 1992, leaving behind a series of VHS tapes to his employer and family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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