"Hey, buddy." "Just got a postcard... from Nathaniel, and this is what it says..." ""Dear Stilly,"" "our leader has asked me to invite you up here to Ragnarok." "If you can round up Pitman and David we know that we have an incredible subject for a documentary." "If you are interested meet me in the Winnett bar in Winnett Montana sometime between 2pm and 4pm on July 13th." "If you are not there, this is my goodbye." ""You have always been a true friend"" "and this is in capitols, "WE NEED YOUR HELP."" "I'm calling up Davy." "I think we are probably gonna be headed north." "Those people he's with, and him there, I mean..." "I've meet some of them." "They're awesome, they're crazy." "We've had crazy deep conversations." "So I don't know how deep their conversations are going these days!" "I don't know man, I feel like I can be one step away sometimes from sending somebody a postcard like that." "I think that-I think that it's gonna be... awesome!" "I'm excited!" "I'm excited for this!" "We're in between projects." "I mean..." "it makes perfect sense." "Why wouldn't we go do this?" "We've always kind of wanted to make a documentary." "My initial reaction is that I didn't want to go." "I was like, "screw that."" "And then you guys were like "Yeah, yeah it's fun." "It's gonna be fun, excited."" "And I was like, what are they not reading that I'm reading." "Why are you guys not worried about this situation?" "I mean the postcard is really weird." "I am overseeing all things sound related." "So are you excited?" "I hope there's some cute girls there." "The thing that I'm struggling with is if this a... cult or a commune." "That's what I..." "What's the difference?" "Cults are, in my opinion, seem much more insidious." "Stilwell?" "Yeah?" "Do you think Nathaniel's gotten himself into some real trouble?" "No." "I don't." "Like..." "I don't know what it is, but I don't think trouble." "I really Don't." "That's it, isn't it?" "Welcome to Winnett." "Hey, you haven't heard of a commune in the area?" "Not at all?" "No." "Where at?" "Is it out at the bench, or..." "Out kind of by the... by Mussel Shell River, or..." "Okay, there's..." "There..." "It's not really so much a commune." "It's..." "They're kinda setting' down there." "They made their own little... niche." "Yeah." "Thank you." "You guys have a good one." "Take care." "Bye." "See you soon." "Alrighty!" "12 ounce steaks, video gambling." "Outside 100, inside 75." "Where do you wanna be?" "Where are we?" "... the Winnett Bar and Grill." "Why are we here?" "Lord knows." "He said to meet when?" "Between, two and four." "Two and four." "So they very well could be in this bar at this moment." "Yep." "You guys lost?" "We're not lost!" "We're filming' a movie!" "Right, the commune guys!" "What are they..." "what are they like?" "What do you mean what are they like?" "You don't know?" "Then you're on your own, dude." "Yep." "Here we go." "You got beers in here?" "All right!" "Doesn't mean you get any." "Ooh!" "This place is all..." "Very nice." "This is great." "Is this your bar?" "Why?" "Sometimes." "How long have you lived in Winnett?" "Are you FBI?" "CIA?" "I'd say nonya!" "Nonya?" "Nonya business!" "How long have you lived in Winnett?" "All her life." "All my life." "Really?" "Have you met any of the people living in the commune nearby?" "No, she hasn't." "My God." "My..." "Are you serious?" "How you doin'?" "My God." "This is alive!" "We weren't sure." "Yeah, that excuse don't fly around here." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Better join..." "Every-everybody..." "Pitty's mad." "Are you mad at me?" "I haven't heard from you in three years." "I tell you what." "When we get out there you'll understand exactly why" "I've been gone for three years." "You know who we're meeting here?" "Do I?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Whoo!" "Stilwell." "Creek's dried up." "And the bus ain't running'." "Shit." "Hey, Rizzo." "Adam Cotton." "Pleasure to meet you." "You too." "Hold on." "Hey." "Adam Pitman." "Andrew Rizzo." "Hi." "Hello." "David." "Andrew Rizzo." "Pleasure to meet ya's." "We got some problems boys." "We gotta kind of move quick." "The bus is down." "You know, I am just going to be a little transparent with you guys." "There are some people who are not really happy at all." "You might be walking into a little bit of stuff." "You know what, the best time to come see Ragnarok is at that sun's going down." "So let's-let's D. D. Mao." "Let's get on the road." "Anyone wanna ride with me?" "Pitty, you wanna go with him?" "Davy you go with..." "with Rizzo." "I'll go." "I'll ride with you." "That's okay." "It's okay." "I might need to put more water in this bitch." "Car?" "Yeah." "All right." "I can..." "I can just use what's in my water bottle." "Yeah, I'm gonna..." "Are you okay?" "Okay." "That's what this is all about, right?" "I don't know how, but if you can ask him if like... if any of the people that are worried about us filming, if... we are going to face any hostility at all?" "Okay." "Like violence..." "I..." "They wanted us out here." "Let's get that sunset!" "I know." "Okay." "All right." "Okay, I'll see you guys out there." "See you out there, brother." "Just stay close behind us." "I am excited for this." "I don't have any real ties or any real... and nothing anchoring me and so I..." "Why the hell." "The only advice I'll give you, sir, David, right?" "Yeah, yeah." "David." "Is check you expectations at the door and your assumptions at the door and you'll do just fine." "Got it." "Easy to do." "Yeah. for some." "'Kay, so we just met Andrew Rizzo." "So like when you were... when you wrote in your postcard, the leader, is that him?" "Is that..." "That's Rizzo?" "That's who Stilwell thought was the leader." "Are those your cows?" "No, These..." "We don't have any cows." "We do have sheep, though." "I'm coffee drinker." "I brought a couple of frappuccinos for myself... and for anybody who wants one." "Well be care..." "I mean..." "Like I said it's like the natives." "If you give the gifts, you know..." "When I was in the army years ago, when I was over in Iraq, you give em toilet paper or jeans or anything like that you make friends real quick." "So..." "Use your frappuccinos, or whatever it is you got, wisely." "And if you are half as laid back..." "If your half as laid back as you are right now... you're gonna be fine." "I'm pretty laid back." "That other little guy, he seems a little nervous." "He's a little nervous." "They're gonna eat him up, man." "They're gonna eat him up." "So I'm a little worried about the... the people that aren't excited about us being out there." "Yeah, well, you know, you just have to understand that for some people cameras and movies and things like that are one of the symptoms of the world that we're trying to..." "get away from." "So there she is." "If you turn that camera right over here." "Ghetto Gypsy." "There it is!" "Yeah." "There it is." "Is this really far away from camp?" "Yeah, it's about half way." "Yeah." "Nice." "Welcome to Ragnarok." "Who is that?" "By the way." "Yeah?" "No smoking." "Fire danger." "Okay." "I don't smoke." "All right, some quick housekeeping, brothers." "One, lot of rattlesnakes, especially up in that area, and that cave up there, we had a collapse, our boy Nicky, you know Nicky, he almost got crushed up in there, so stay away from it." "I wonder if I should get out..." "of the car." "Two, no booze in the Triangle of Ragnarok, and you will understand that when you get in there." "You can come drink at your car, so..." "No, I think that's..." "Yeah, leave all of your gear in the car and someone will come and take care of it and put it in your yurt for ya." "Krunk, come on, we gotta go." "D. D. Mao!" "Where are you going?" "I got some stuff I gotta do." "All right." "Okay." "See you guys down there." "See you." "See you, Nathaniel!" "I can't believe I haven't been here yet." "Yeah, it's crazy." "Wow." "Camera's out." "Hey." "He's Pitman." "Holy shit." "Nice to meet you, man." "Nice to meet you." "This is Roos." "Hello, cameraman." "Wow, that's a trip." "And we just got... these, we had... some trouble with our old structures, so we just got some new structures, and..." "Working on 'em, figuring 'em out." "Wow." "That's pretty cool." "Creepy." "That's creepy." "That's a nice spot to die." "Regretting coming here." "You see the people up there, David?" "... What?" "People up there?" "Whoa." "David." "God." "David." "Welcome to Ragnarok." "Wow." "Are you serious?" "Hey!" "How's it going, man?" "Come on, Pitty." "Don't be too weird." "Keep up with us, man." "Holy cow." "Wow." "Good, man." "Fuckin' nuts." "Yeah." "What's up?" "How are you?" "Welcome." "Show you guys around real quick, and then show you where your stuff's at." "We'll get you in your place and then we will eat dinner." "This is the whole crew?" "This is everybody?" "Yeah." "I'm David." "This is it!" "Hi, hi!" "I'm Adam." "That's Sugar Slim." "Adam." "Adam, as well." "This is Dave, this is John." "Adam." "They call me Cotton." "That's my last name." "Cotton." "Keep the confusion down." "The cameras are on us." "Capturing every move." "How was the drive?" "It was good." "It was good." "Hot." "Don't go in Martha's kitchen." "You know, or rub my back or my feet, or be dinner." "All right, she's cookin', so we'll let her be." "How're you hangin' in there?" "I'm good." "Yeah." "This is the water buffalo." "So you guys need to drink a lot of water while you're here." "This is your kitchen?" "It is." "There's a lot of stuff going on, but it's a lot of fun." "What's your name?" "I'm Martha." "Adam." "Adam, nice to meet you." "Kind of has a little bit of a sulfur taste to it." "It's 'cause it's soft water." "Tons of minerals, really, really good for you." "Stoking!" "Thank you stoking!" "But it does smell like fart water, so..." "These are beautiful." "What's your name?" "Put some racks in 'em, cover 'em in mud, and bake away." "You guys like lasagna?" "Disproportion." "This one has..." "I just ran out of sauce for the top of the..." "I'm David." "Hey, David." "How ya doin', man?" "Nice to meet ya." "I'm Nick." "Nick." "Nice to meet you, man." "Gabriel?" "Yeah." "Nice to meet you." "You too." "All right, well I think that's it for these guys." "David, there's prickly pear, so anything inside the Triangle, you'r pretty much safe, you can kinda like... you know, step with your flip-flops and stuff." "Why do you call it the Triangle?" "'cause it's like a triangle." "It's-it's like the shape of the community." "It's where everything fits." "We're pretty tight knit, you know, so it keeps everybody kind of tight knit and cool." "Yeah." "Wow." "Let me show you guys to your yurt." "Wow." "Yeah." "We get a yurt?" "Yeah." "Holy shit." "Whoa." "So, man, this is all you guys." "I am gonna go check on dinner, see if I can help out and..." "Okay." "Cool, cool." "Make yourselves comfortable." "There you go." "Awesome, man." "Thank you." "Stoking." "Thank you stoking." "What's your name?" "Rick." "Rick." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "How was the journey, man?" "Welcome, welcome." "What's for dinner?" "Lasagna and some salad." "I haven't met you yet." "What's your name?" "I'm Ciara." "Ciara?" "Hi." "What's your name, by the way?" "I'm David." "Sorry." "Very cool." "I'm Reid." "Reid?" "Nice to meet you, Reid." "Hi, I'm Sarina." "Sarina." "Nice to meet you." "Hailey." "Hailey." "Nice to meet you, Hailey." "Nice to meet you." "Hi, I'm David." "Okay..." "Hey, Rizzo?" "Sorry to interrupt." "What's the protocol for dinner?" "Hi, buddy." "Protocol?" "Eat." "How long do you plan to be here?" "I'm..." "I'm not totally sure." "I think... two weeks, three weeks maybe?" "Yeah... yeah." "What in the hell?" "I don't know, there is something about electricity and energy that I get, like, it makes sense to me." "Do you feel like its ironic that you are trying to get away from it?" "The things that make us comfortable sometimes make us too comfortable, and we start to forget what else life is really about." "You know?" "Yeah." "I found myself that way years ago, and... you know the Burning Man experience for me definitely opened my eyes to alternative forms of living, you know, and it's..." "it's a treat honestly." "Whoa!" "That generator... with a five gallon tank probably can run about 12 hours." "Okay." "But we are not big into fossil fuels around here unless it's a special occasion." "And luckily you're a special occasion!" "Cool!" "Thank you very much." "No problem!" "The idea that there are scorpions, rattlesnakes... and like I said we're so far out in the middle of nowhere." "No cell phone service." "That cell phone booster does not work at all." "It says there are three bars but it doesn't call out." "It doesn't connect." "I'm very uncomfortable." "I know you are." "It's not..." "But, hey, hey, hey, hey." "What if this is good for you?" "In what way?" "Like a spiritual..." "No, no, no, no, no." "I'm gonna have this thing that pulls me out of, I mean..." "Out of your comfort zone." "Sure, I understand that." "What do I always say?" "If you spend your life... being comfortable all the time how do you ever grow?" "Right, I understand." "You've got some things that you need to..." "I saw somebody." "Somebody was at that window, looking in the window." "Somebody was looking in the window." "Geez!" "Jesus Christ!" "It was Nathaniel." "I think you have some things you need to work through." "My God." "Jesus!" "That scared the shit out of me." "What ya doin' in here?" "We're having a conversation." "That's all." "No, it's awesome." "God." "That really scared me." "Okay?" "All right." "Are you all right there, Pitty?" "Keeps coming up like "What are you guys doing here?"" "And it's like... what?" "!" "We came out here 'cause you asked us to." "Because you invite us out here!" "We were invited." "And I actually only feel comfortable enough talking about it 'cause I don't think they can hear us over the generator." "But I mean there were some..." "There was a few moments where we talked about the people who... the people who don't really want us here." "Not individually and specific but... there is some people who don't..." "It wasn't there choice to bring us here." "But, he talked about you, Pitman, and the fact that, you know, you didn't want to ride with him, and you know he kept saying," ""If your squirrelly friend brings that into the Triangle they're gonna..." "they're gonna pick up on it."" "Weird." "Does that bother you?" "I mean, I wasn't actually even gonna mention it to you at all." "Shh, shh, shh!" "Cotton!" "Can I come in?" "Yeah.me." "You scared me." "And my tru..." "Why do I have this trust issue with Nathaniel?" "Yeah, he's one of your best friends!" "We just gotta talk to him." "Whenever I see him he looks pissed off." "He looks like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders." "Yeah, and he said, "We..."" "It's a big deal, like, we got a subject for a..."" "Maybe that's it." "Maybe we need to..." "We need to talk to those fuckin' motherfuckers." "I just love it in here." "Yeah." "Wow." "The yurts are new for us." "Okay." "Yeah, they're a new..." "We're trying them out." "We had a little surplus money and..." "You said usually you guys are doing kinda the bigger tents." "Yeah, we did those canvas tents and, you know, even though they're shady they get pretty hot." "So, are you okay?" "Yeah, yeah." "You good?" "Yeah, I'm good, man." "I'm-I'm good." "You're stressed a little bit?" "You know, and I don't..." "You know, we invited you guys here, and I don't want to put any of this on you, but... you guys have to understand that you're walking into a situation where... these people have built this place," "and they put it together, and they made a lot of personal sacrifices and financial sacrifices to be here, and, it can pose a little bit of a threat, and they're concerned about how they're gonna be portrayed." "Yeah." "But we've got a good thing going on here, and we want people to know that this is possible, that you can do this and you can find happiness." "In an environment where..." "... That's why you asked us to come?" "Or..." "Well, I need you guys to know that... there is some stuff going on that I am not really at liberty to talk discuss right now..." "Great." "Within the group." "And just know that things are gonna level off..." "It's an adjustment for you guys to land here, and it's an adjustment for us to have you." "That makes sense." "Cool." "Where are we goin'?" "Straight to the top, baby!" "That's beautiful." "Why are you here?" "I'm here because of these people... and I am here to experience... and create a culture in a setting of our choosing." "When you get all the outside noise, you know... dimmed down, quieted down, you know, you can do the best writing, do the best singing, you can do the best dancing, like just feel free." "The ability to make change in this environment is so immediate, and so powerful, and... the struggles that we go through, we go through together." "This is a place to be... aware of yourself, and connect with other people, truly and honestly, and be open enough with yourself to... connect with other open souls." "So I am very out front, like I enjoy bathing in front of people, and I think that's kind of one of the beauties of our community." "And just shows, sort of, you know, an extreme level of intimacy that we somehow managed to achieve for a fairly decent sized group is bathing out in the open." "I mean, you can see people shitting up on the hill up there." "It's all..." "But it's all like, why should it be shameful?" "Why should it be?" "It's like it's all something we all do, we all have to deal with our bodies, like..." "We're all animals." "Yeah, exactly!" "And attaching this notion of shame, it seems like a very sort of Catholic, Protestant sort of, you know, way of living that I, you know, so-so desperately been trying to avoid ever since I have been old enough" "to make my own decisions." "What's in here?" "Please don't film in here." "Just..." "Okay." "Sorry." "When an emotion rises up, like, I don't like the way that David's asking me this question," "I have a choice to try that on and take over my vessel." "It's almost like a fight." "Within a fight you've got two things that you are in control of, time and distance." "The distance you've got to cover, and the time it takes to get there and strike it." "You know what I mean?" "Sure..." "So when a thought or emotion comes up for me five years ago I would be like "David hates me!"" "and I would be like, you know, fuckin' I gotta clock this guy." "You know?" "And I would be talking to you, going "fuck you."" "And now I allow, I go, "David hates me." I look at it, kinda separate it, I get a little time and distance in between me and that thought before I let it take over my flesh suit." "I watch it, and then I have an appropriate amount of distance to say "is that something I really want to try on?"" "Is that something I really want to give to David?"" "Because to be quite..." "quite frankly, I do." "I am disliking the way you are asking me these questions!" "... Sorry!" "Good morning." "Good morning." "What was your name again?" "I'm Ciara." "Ciara." "David." "How are you ladies feeling today?" "Kind of stuffed up." "Yeah?" "Are you getting that too, a little bit?" "Just, I don't know if it's the dryness or..." "The heat." "The heat and the desert dryness." "Yeah, I think I need to lay down, my head is kind of..." "Lay down, baby." "I was walking around in my bare feet, and got a prickly pear." "I stepped on one... and I got all these little thorns in my foot." "And they're like, "We're raking'!"" "I was like "You don't have to rake, I'll put on my shoes."" ""Nope, we're gonna rake this whole place."" "I was like "No!" "Seriously, don't rake." "It's fine."" "He's like "No, you're our guest."" "Rick said, "If you have a thorn in your foot, we have a thorn in our foot." ""We're gonna rake this whole place."" "And they've been raking all day." "It's all because somebody gets a little prickly pear on their toe." "Next thing you know you're raking' all day." "This is a..." "appearance release." "I thought this was a handshake sort of a deal." "We can't when it's a production..." "Should I go talk to him?" "Yeah." "Hey, R..." "What do we do?" "It's just one of those things." "I get it." "We still have to deal with the real world and I am not trying to be an asshole." "Bring that stuff to me first..." "Yeah, yeah." "Okay." "Before he brings it to..." "Yeah, absolutely." "Absolutely." "Yeah." "We want this movie to be in theaters." "Of course, but hey, hey, hey." "But hey, keep your dicky..." "keep your dicky... keep your dicky in your pants and we can fuck next week." "We invited you, we did." "We asked you to do that but..." "The thing is, that we do need every single person here to sign these agreements." "That'll happen... 'cause it could be just a film about 20 jerk-offs in the middle of nowhere, but if you're kind to us, there's things that we understand and we know... that can really..." "be mutually beneficial." "Do you, want these?" "Do you want to read 'em over?" "Yeah." "Listen, I know what this is." "Put 'em by the toilets." "That's how we feel about it too, man." "You know that." "We hate this shit." "It's a lot of paperwork." "I mean, some people don't..." "It's just reality, and..." "Listen." "Some people don't even have addresses." "Where ya gonna put the address on here?" "We don't need..." "What address, a grid coordinate?" "Put the signature on there and you guys can figure out the rest." "Yeah, and it doesn't say anything except that you aren't gonna sue us, and I doubt you will." "No we'll kill ya before we sue ya." "All right." "All right." "If we can help with anything, I know we're trying to..." "You know, I don't know..." "Put this douche on a leash." "I'm just kiddin', I like ya, I do, I really do." "He's like that." "He makes jokes." "He does." "So wait what happened?" "You just like brought them out..." "I wasn't around when..." "Forget it." "Fuck it." "Ho!" "Armpit." "Armpit." "You sliced his femoral artery." "Good job." "Deadman!" "Deadman." "Splittin' wigs." "Hey, where's that Pit-man guy?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm all right." "No, sit down." "Sit down." "Does it feel like there is something in there or is it just a pressure?" "Hey Pitman." "Yeah?" "Sorry sorry, cut it please." "We usually do a good breakfast and then a snack, because it's so hot out here that you don't really wanna eat that much in the middle of the day." "And then at night we..." "I try to feast, 'cause everybody works so hard out here." "Ya know, there's just always things to do, always things to do, always things to fix or create, or... ya know... and it gets hot and heavy." "There is an interconnectedness... that's very real." "You know, living out in the wilderness you see the ants move around." "You see the way that they're communicating constantly and they are feeding off of each other, and we are feeding off of each other." "So we work... very hard to keep that in mind and so every action that I do is going to affect everyone around me." "On small levels we are all a part of making this massive thing move, and if the gears aren't, taken care of individually it doesn't..." "it doesn't go anywhere." "Trying to do it off the grid is... not the easiest." "Definitely gives you an appreciation for our... fore-fathers who came out here with nothing, no gennies, no electricity, no plastic to cover their shitters." "You need water?" "Are you ready to do this?" "Yeah, yeah, sorry." "It's a place to regain your perspective, a place to touchstone on, to come back and relearn how to..." "The basic, needs in life, to learn how to cook your food, to learn how to survive in the elements, no distractions, no advertising, people not advertising to each other about things that are meaningless" "to your personal evolution." "Not saying that the world outside is... meaningless to personal evolution," "I think it's a big lesson in what not to do." "Like the American culture, Western civilization which is, ya know, in my estimation, has just sort of poisoned the entire world." "Is..." "It's just all so much horseshit." "Like, you know, New York is such... is the epicenter of it, of all the advertising, of all the..." "It feels like you are in there and you are a fucking lab rat." "And everybody there is having all these social experiments and advertising experiments." "Test it out on them, police presence at every turn, constantly... you know constantly having to watch what you are doing, and an arrogance to it, like a belief that... a belief that somehow it's the pinnacle of civilization," "it's the pinnacle of progress, and it will always be like this, but you take a step away from it, and you come out to a place like this and you walk through a a canyon and you look at a mountain... and you realize that the land doesn't give a flying fuck" "what we call important." "What we, ya know, we have been going to the burn together for years, and this was just kind of the next step, you know?" "It's now been like three years, I guess." "Losing track of time, 'cause I rarely even know what day it is." "Now we are in this space and time just kind of goes through us." "You know?" "So..." "You know what I mean?" "... Yeah, absolutely." "What was the question?" "Sorry." "It's..." "I'm sorry." "I think I need to move out of the sun a little" "because I'm getting kind of..." "Okay." "Let me move my..." "I'm sorry, I'm getting a lot of..." "feedback right now and it's a little overwhelming." "Yeah... yeah." "Okay." "Yeah, thank you." "It's-it's okay." "Yeah, I just..." "I gotta go." "I'm sorry, I don't know if it's the..." "I think it might be the ca..." "I think I'm a little sensitive," "and I didn't really shield today and I'm little..." "... No worries." "So we sell the chimes." "We sell petrified wood mostly." "We also do sage bundles, 'cause there is really great burning sage out here." "And if you've noticed," "I don't know if you've looked around." "There's a lot of cows in the pastures, and when the cows take shits, there is a special little thing that grows on them shits, and we kinda dry up the things that grow on them shits" "and sell 'em." "Wow!" "Joe here is an Akbash, and he is really, really thick fur coated in the wintertime so when it gets cold he has no problems staying out all year long with the sheep." "So they just ward off..." "They ward off coyotes, any predators." "They ward off coyotes, yeah." "Mainly coyotes out here." "No problems with them at all." "It generates revenue." "It gives a lot of people something to do, caring for the animals." "You know, eventually we want to learn how to make our own clothes," "I mean, and this is the beginning step to that." "It's a work in progress and here we are, ya know." "At the bare minimum, ya know, I think we could... make a... documentary about... a different way of doing things, and showing people that... this energy can be brought back into communities." "Whatever that..." "whatever that means." "But just knowing that there are other ways and there are other options." "It's something that is very real." "And It's something accessible to us if we choose it." "And that everything that we do is... ultimately as we know... by our own design." "And this is what we have chosen to design." "If we form a relationship and you wanna stay, if you form a relationship and you like this place... then I'm happy, ya know?" "If you come out here and... you demonize it, if you don't enjoy it, if you think that something's wrong with this kind of thing, then I'm okay with it." "But the most important thing for me is to give people the opportunity to make up their own mind about it." "I don't want to come at you guys like a hard on, but it's very important to understand that if this door blows open and comes off, this thing turns into a fuckin' kite." "You got to really make sure that you keep it shut at all times, and if the door starts to come off you got to re-tape it yourself." "Okay." "Okay?" "Sorry about..." "It's important." "Okay." "It's important." "It's important." "Thank you." "Sorry." "Sorry." "My beard's growing out, my hair is growing out." "Haven't shaved." "... Yeah, that hair is..." "That hair is really cutting' loose." "You might be leavin' me behind." "Where are we goin'?" "We are going to the Ragnarok well." "Here we go." "I think that some people are a little threatened that you guys are out here." "Just 'cause it's..." "I mean you got a camera, you know." "Usually everything we say and do just kind of drifts off into the ether." "Ya know, and here you guys are kind of recording everything." "Yeah." "Awesome." "Is that good?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "What are you doing?" "Wha...?" "I'm just kidding." "All right, you're good to go." "Good?" "Yeah." "The word "cult." I mean..." "Yeah give it a name." "We are... according to the predominant, you know, paradigm of what a cult looks like and what a cult is." "It's the cage of words." "Ya know, you can wrap this place in a cage of words and try to intellectualize it and understand it, but it's just an Alamo." "It's to retouch... the human heart in a new, different way." "Not even a new way, to revisit a way that has been lost in our contemporary society." "A cult seems to signify to me, a unified belief system." "Which means, a belief is attaching to something... that you have the answer to the unknown." "And... one thing we definitely don't have is... is, an answer to the unknown." "Roos just passed out out here." "Stilly, what's up, man?" "What's goin' on?" "How you doin'?" "I think it's the headaches." "Yeah?" "You okay?" "Would you turn that camera off?" "Why didn't you help him?" "Hey, you guys?" "Roos just..." "Shit." "We need some shade." "Can you, like, stand back?" "Pitman, get the camera off." "I didn't..." "I didn't even know." "I was-I was, like, in shock." "I didn't even know I was filming it." "No, it's not your fault." "They brought us in here." "We got the cameras, we're supposed to be shooting all the time." "Like, what are we supposed to do?" "Let's be respectful, though, when they say "cameras off."" "I mean, I know we're supposed to be capturing al the dramas, you know, but I..." "I don't want to... ruin relationships around here." "I wanna..." "I think Pitman's had his camera on 24/7." "I don't think he..." "Its like a thing, when you get it in your head you just have it on..." "I will say sorry." "Like, he's really scared of things like that and he was shocked and I don't know if he knew." "You know what I mean?" "I really..." "Something's happening out here." "When you're a member of this community... you are officially a part of the we collective." "Right." "We take care of each other here." "I'm okay." "It's just... livin' on the fucking prairie, you know." "Just normal stuff." "All right." "Good." "Okay." "Can you-can we just have this conversation without the camera for a couple of minutes?" "I'm a little concerned about, Rooster." "This Morning the same thing happened to Ricky." "Shit." "I mean he, collapsed, he got up and was fine, but..." "Did you ask him, like, if that's, like, what it was, or if it was just..." "No, he said it's so hot." "It was the heat." "You know, and how global warming is going to affect us." "And, you know, scientists don't really know." "So, who knows?" "Next year we might not even see a drop of rain." "This broccoli is really confused by the weather." "Right here this is about to flower so... it's flowering and its not ready." "So it's in this weird limbo state that a lot of these plants seem to be in." "I just want to ask you real quick, there's been a couple, like, people passing out lately, you know?" "I think it's just the heat." "Yeah." "Like I think I was telling you earlier, usually, you know, it's hot for like three days and then we get, like, a spell of rain and everything cools off, you know." "This is just like steady, steady heat." "And... well we have been dealing with it the best we can, you know?" "Yeah." "Makes weeding kind of a pain in the ass." "Yeah, right?" "Did you guys eat some dinner?" "Yes, it was delicious." "Great." "This emptiness..." "I accept that I will be his feast." "When I open my eyes the hot breath of the beast blows my hair back." "We are eye to eye." "It bellows once, loud and long, its jaws foaming with hunger." "I smile, but it alternates shape..." "This is, something, I guess." "I don't know." "I don't know how much I'm..." "I don't know how much you guys are supposed to know about this." "I'm surprised actually they played it tonight." "there's-there's some common links in this group that some people have and some people don't," "And this has something to do with that." "You guys, did everybody have a good day today?" "Yeah." "Hot day." "Felt good?" "It was really hot?" "Hot day." "That's what I heard." "Its teeth carved with characters from an unrecognizable, unknowable language." "Maybe turn in?" "And..." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Good night." "Good night." "How come you said yes to come out here?" "Ambition?" "You want to see your friend Nathaniel?" "You think he's been swept away by a bunch of freaks?" "What intrigued you about this project?" "What made you-what inspired you to get in a car based off of a post card, and come, what is it, two thousand miles?" "Well I don't anything about you you don't know anything about me, so maybe me and you we could..." "I'm not judging you." "I know you're not judging." "Of course not." "But maybe me and you can quit the assumptions about each other." "I'm all about bein' friends, brother." "How are you doin'?" "I'm good." "How are you feelin'?" "Yay!" "Look." "Yeah." "The old bitch is runnin'?" "All right!" "He, propositioned me." "What?" "He propositioned me." "What do you mean?" "To come by and... and experiment in his tent, or in his yurt." "What does that mean?" "Sexually experiment." "Hey, buddy." "Yeah, no problem." "That was a great interview." "My pleasure." "Where're you guys going?" "!" "We are going to... make sure nobody stepped up into this cave, and... dig it out a little bit." "What's going on here, buddy?" "You know, just getting ready to put another layer of mud on those ovens!" "One of us!" "One of us!" "Woo!" "Keep piling' it on the bottom he said." "My little child." "Yes, it goes in the oven." "It was getting to the point where I felt like I wasn't really going to make it... out there, you know?" "And I came here and I feel important... and I feel loved... and I don't get in trouble." "Are you going to miss us if you stay out here for... the rest of your life?" "Yeah!" "But, I mean... you know, depending on how this thing all pans out... you know, you can come back." "Saw that lightning strike." "See that car there?" "Those are our guys." "Another townie." "Man, look at..." "Jesus." "It took em two days to get choppers out to that one." "There's only one chopper in fucking Billings." "Keep moving down the line, the next guy will get what you miss!" "What are we doin', Riz?" "Stampin' out." "We create a fire barrier so it can't move." "We burn it out here, it'll burn back on itself." "That's as far as it was away from us when we were over there." "We did it by ourselves." "One more." "Where I am now as a human being..." "I can say that I don't think I'll regret anything that's happened out here." "So far." "When I was interviewing Sugar, today, this spider-there was a spider inside of the tepee." "And he said..." ""I know you'e not gonna hurt me, but you're not welcome here."" "And he kind of shooshed, flooshed it out of the..." "I guess I don't need this, Cotton." "He flooshed it." "He flooshed it out of the teepee." "Wait, so he floofed it out." "He floofed it out of the teepee, and he said..." "Floof?" "Is that a word?" "Floofed." "Makes sense." "Yeah." "Spiders are, not good spirits in every culture." "That's not true." "Yes?" "Gentlemen?" "Yeah?" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "We are meeting out in the circle right now and we'd like you to be our guests." "Okay." "Okay?" "All right." "I tell you what, if it's that difficult" "I can take it and take control of it and..." "see if I can figure it out." "Okay." "Is it on?" "I think it might be on." "And this is like focus thing?" "There's a red light on, it's on." "It's focusing." "Okay." "That's cool." "Yeah." "Wow, this is nice." "Have some fun." "... I gotta get my shoes on." "It's just a giant eyeball." "Pitman was ready for bed." "This is gonna be fun." "David, please have a seat next to Adam." "Adam, please have a seat next to David." "We are trusting you." "It's time for you to start trusting us." "These are our releases." "Thank you." "Sip, don't gulp." "It smells so nice out there." "God, I'm movin' here." "Yeah, well, welcome home." "Stilly..." "Krunk, it's time." "Stilly, let's go." "Point your camera this way, brother." "Yeah, come on." "Okay." "Keep the camera rolling." "Is your sound on?" "Double check, boys." "You notice that everyone..." "has not been feelin' so well." "Yeah." "We think this is the reason." "Yeah, there it is." "Fuckin' weird!" "What is that?" "Man." "This is why you're here." "God." "Stay up here, Michael." "God, whoa." "Fuckin' A." "It's coming from there." "That's where their sh..." "Jesus!" "Pitman, over here." "What?" "Over here." "What the fuck?" "Can you hear it?" "Fuck yeah, I can hear it." "My God." "My God." "This is where it's coming from?" "Yeah." "And the further we dug it up, the louder it got." "And we got to a point where people started getting sick, so we stopped and that's when we called you guys." "Pitman!" "Pitty!" "Okay, you guys." "People don't know about this, not the whole camp knows about this, so you guys can't just talk about it, all right?" "We're a democratic society..." "We wanted to bring them out here..." "you've seen that, right?" "So that they could see this, the world could see this." "There was no vote on this one." "This was not a choice." "I know that." "I know that." "You're not helping the situation." "To show us that thing?" "I just want them to know..." "Nobody knows about that thing" "except for the people out here right now." "That this is..." "We voted on having you come in and they voted no, but we did it anyway because that thing" "is a fucking problem, and we need to fix it." "I'm trying to just tell them." "Come over here." "Stilly, not everyone is getting sick." "Yeah." "... It's only certain people." "Is that when the, like, the passing out and shit?" "Yeah, about a month ago, after Nicky found it." "The headaches?" "Yeah... yeah." "As you get away from it, do you feel better?" "Yeah, it wears off." "It's nauseating, just very nauseating." "Stilly, when we get close to that fucking thing it feels like your cells are fucking vibrating." "It doesn't just..." "You don't just hear it." "Yeah." "... You feel it in your teeth." "You feel it everywhere!" "And then the..." "I mean..." "Yeah, and there's some more information." "Okay." "Not everybody knows about this." "We've gotta go back in there." "And we'll talk about this tomorrow." "We'll talk about how we go about dealing with this." "Whoo!" "Hey, guys." "Guys, hey." "I think something's going on out there." "No, I heard-I heard..." "It's really fuckin' early." "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah." "Hey, sorry guys." "No." "Unlock the door." "Have you guys seen Ciara?" "No." "Not even before you went to bed?" "No." "I don't know." "Sorry, buddy." "Come on." "Have you seen Ciara?" "No." "When was the last time you saw her?" "Did you see her last night, or...?" "But not this morning?" "No, we..." "What's up?" "I can't..." "I can't find her." "What's up, John?" "Maybe she went for a walk or something." "Well, she d..." "I went to bed..." "She never came home, so I don't know if..." "What?" "She never came home last night?" "No, she never was next to me at all." "Ciara!" "Ciara!" "Get out of my face." "Just find her." "Quit filming and let's find her." "She out there?" "No." "Shit." "Monte?" "Yeah?" "You okay?" "I just got a bloody nose and I gotta shit real bad." "She's usually here by now." "Where do you think she'd go?" "You guys haven't seen her?" "Really?" "They're not doin' so good, John." "What's wrong?" "Nathaniel?" "Are you okay?" "No." "Do you guys have a rag?" "I need something." "Rizzo's bleeding." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Just any-anything?" "They're really..." "hurting." "What the hell's going on?" "Ciara's missing." "Are you okay?" "No." "Fuck." "Ciara's gone..." "Rizzo seems really sick." "Rizzo's sick?" "Buddy, you got a little blood in your ear." "Whoa!" "Martha." "Go to Martha, okay?" "Pitty." "Nathaniel's..." "Ciara!" "Yeah, it seems like something's going on." "Rizzo, what's goin' on?" "Can we all come together here and maybe, figure out some sort of search party thing, or..." "I have the flu or something." "I don't feel well." "Jesus Christ." "Jesus." "Jesus." "You need water?" "Yes, please." "I need water." "I don't have a glass." "When's the last time you saw her, John?" "I saw her last night some time." "Stilly..." "I'm gonna get..." "I'm going to go get a doctor." "I'm taking your van." "I'm going to go get a doctor." "She could've gotten sick and gone off." "What the fuck is going on?" "I have no idea." "I think we all have food poisoning." "It's got to be something we ate." "I ate the same thing." "I feel-I feel fine." "Yeah, we ate the same thing." "Want me to turn the shower on your head?" "Yeah?" "Yeah?" "Put the shower on his head." "Jesus Christ." "Here, drink this." "Drink this, buddy." "Your head hurts really bad?" "Drink." "Are you fucking serious?" "Come on!" "Shit." "Get him to the teepee!" "... Okay." "Okay." "Come on." "Come on, buddy." "Rooster, let's go." "Come on, buddy." "Come on." "Stay with me." "Keep your eyes open." "Ciara!" "Are you doin' okay?" "We need to make sure everybody..." "It's not working." "It's not turning over." "Jesus." "What the hell is going on?" "Something's going on." "It's getting..." "It's getting worse." "Ciara!" "Is it working?" "None of the cars are fucking working?" "!" "What's up?" "Are you gonna go for help?" "Yeah." "God." "Get him a rag." "Get him some water." "I feel exactly the same way that everyone here who's been kept out of the loop would feel." "Who knew?" "... For that we're beyond apologies." "What do we do?" "We get outta here." "We need to get outta here." "I will stay back with John and whoever else needs to and we will find Ciara." "People need to get their shit together, only the necessities, and start moving toward Mosby." "We need to stay calm." "This thing is something that's above us." "It's something that is beyond what we can understand." "We're all in this together." "It's everybody who had the dream." "Cotton!" "When did he leave?" "You okay?" "Just let me get a breath." "Nathaniel, what'd he mean "the dream"?" "Is that him up there?" "Shit." "Where?" "Krunk!" "No, you guys go get 'em." "Andy!" "Aw fuck!" "Fuck!" "Andy, Andy!" "I'll get his legs." "No, no, no, no." "Here, I'll take him." "Help me!" "Let's get him." "We got him." "Come on." "How you doin', man?" "Jesus!" "Water!" "Come on!" "Try to get him to lay down in bed on the table." "God." "He's bleeding." "He's bleeding." "What do we..." "Wait..." "Where are you guys going?" "... I got some water here!" "I have to..." "I have to go!" "No!" "I have a baby, I have to go!" "You guys can't go." "Here's some water." "She has a baby!" "Put your head over..." "Put your head over here." "She has a baby!" "Listen!" "The further we got away, the worse it got!" "The further we got away, the worse it got!" "Please!" "It's in your heads!" "It's in your fucking head!" "Guys!" "You can't!" "Here, here, take some water." "I love you so much!" "You guys, you can't!" "Don't worry about it!" "Someone's gotta follow them." "Someone's gotta..." "Slowly." "What happened?" "Where you goin'?" "!" "Rizzo!" "Don't go!" "I'm sorry!" "You can't go!" "No!" "Come back!" "The further you get on the road, the worse you get." "Okay, listen." "Was it the tone?" "Jesus." "I have a baby, I can't!" "It's gonna get worse!" "Where's Tyler and Kendra?" "!" "It's the tone, it's the dream, it's in the cave." "It's happening." "Everything that we fuck around..." "It's happening." "I don't know what." "And it started a month ago" "It started a month ago." "Rick, what dream?" "There's 15 people here who have had the same dream." "And it has to do with that skull that's up there..." "I just think that we have to stay calm." "I'm not gonna go!" "Monte's gonna walk you." "Monte'll help you, okay?" "I don't wanna go!" "I can't go." "Pitman and Stilwell were okay." "They were fine, they were completely fine." "We are gonna have to get anyone who can leave pack together water." "You need to go get help." "Get to Mosby." "There is an emergency phone at Mosby." "Get to Mosby, call, get people out here." "I know It's ok." "Listen, listen." "Kyle, you are gonna have to get her out of here." "Get the stuff that you need, get-get..." "I love you." "Get the stuff that you need and start." "Kyle..." "gather everyone at the road and make sure they're all together, and then go together." "Take care of 'em." "Okay, who's going?" "Anyone who's not staying, let's go." "They need water." "They need water." "Gather all the water in smaller jugs." "They're all gonna leave, they're gonna walk." "It's 41 miles." "They got enough water, there's enough shade along the way." "I mean, but it's gonna be 24 hours before anybody comes in to get us." "Okay." "It'll be 24..." "More like 36, man." "40 miles?" "None of them are prepared for that kind of a hike." "Tyler, Kendra!" "Come on!" "We're here!" "Okay, what happened?" "Shit." "Move all those blankets right here, since they..." "Here?" "You got a pillow?" "Hey, yeah, hey, hey." "It's okay." "Shh." "It's okay." "All take your boots off." "Tyler, get a rag on her belly." "She..." "Get a rag on her belly." "She says she..." "We need shade for them." "We need shade for them." "Water..." "Let 'em get air." "Get an umbrella." "I'll go get the umbrella." "Hey, it's okay." "It's okay." "We don't know what the hell's going on." "Mikey, please." "Nobody knows what the hell is going on, okay?" "I don't need to you to tell me." "Mikey, now is not the time for you to start telling..." "Let her get better and then they can see this." "We'll talk about how they see this." "This is the f..." "It's about her right now, okay?" "We'll talk about how they see this." "We'll talk about how you see this." "I know it's important." "We'll talk about how you see it." "Did you have this dream?" "I never had the dream." "... You didn't have the dream?" "I mean, I know about the dream." "I first had the dream when I was seven... and... at the same time I was friends with Karen." "We... kept it quiet from everyone in our lives, that we shared it." "We just assumed we were some sort of cosmic twin." "When we were younger we were in a friend's basement and she was drawing a picture that..." "I recognized from the dream." "Cut to Burning Man." "Another person, another person, another person." "The more and more we started finding out that people had had it too..." "Go on a website, there's a blog." "Five more people." "I guess we had kind of a mission." "I didn't choose this, we were chosen." "Part of my dream was I was..." "I was in a shack..." "And this young person without any genitals, without any nipples, without any belly button..." "Have people been discussing the dream openly?" "It morphs between this pit bull and..." "A beast, a bear..." "It's like a shape-shifter, it can take many forms..." "And the bear actually services us..." "It's the end of the fear and the beginning of this path..." "When after lightyears and eons of walking with this creature, our guide, our friend, our mentor, he dies at our side." "It decomposes right next to me..." "And what's left of him instead of bear bones is this giant Tyrannosaurus Rex skull..." "It's this T-Rex skull in this cove..." "With ancient etchings in his teeth." "But we've never figured out what those mean." "It looks... exactly like it looks up in that cave." "That is the reason I sent the postcard." "It's a physical manifestation of... one of the main images in this dream that we've had." "And at the end of that dream..." "we're gone." "I just wish I never had it." "I wish I never had this dream." "We didn't know how it was gonna play out... and we needed someone here... to see how it was gonna play out." "I'm gonna let you... get some rest." "Okay." "Okay." "Can I..." "Can I say something to my mom?" "Yeah." "Mom, I..." "Goodnight, angel." "John!" "Do you..." "Is it..." "It's Ciara?" "It's definitely Ciara." "Yeah?" "We got something to show you." "Come here!" "She doesn't leave?" "John, I think we..." "Last night I set up a camera on a tripod to film time lapse of the cave, and... we filmed this." "So right there that's Ciara on the edge of the frame there." "And she walks towards the cave." "I'll just play it, hold on." "'Kay, she's walking towards the cave." "And then she takes off her clothes." "And..." "Hold on I'll fast forward." "There." "She goes in the cave." "Look at this." "There's a flash!" "She does..." "she doesn't come out, Johnny." "No, no, no, no." "No!" "Hey, Johnny!" "Weird." "It's all fucked up man." "You should..." "They're asking about..." "They're asking about you." "We'll hang here, go down there and get some food, water." "Seriously." "Okay?" "One of its teeth is glowing." "What do you mean?" "John!" "It's true!" "It's so loud!" "What is that?" "What is that?" "Look!" "Do you see that?" "Yeah." "On the tooth." "The back tooth." "It's making the noise." "That's where the..." "Jesus!" "Jesus!" "Jesus." "I don't think you guys should be down there!" "All right." "I'm gonna go back up." "Should I just go?" "We're going." "It's inside your head!" "I don't think you should be down there!" "Pitman!" "My God, it's so loud!" "She dug it out, man!" "It looks like a crystal." "It's like a glowing crystal." "What?" "!" "Don't touch it." "I think..." "I don't think we should be here." "Okay." "Okay, I am coming." "You guys gotta help me up out of this place." "Okay." "I'm coming." "Okay." "You guys gotta help me outta here." "Can I tell you something?" "Yeah." "I'm... scared." "I know." "We can't let them see that." "They're all way more scared than we are." "There's a weird thing going on in their fucking brains, and I don't know." "They need sleep." "It's like, cra..." "Like..." "They just need sleep." "I mean... it's been a long fucking day." "I'm feeling amped up myself." "Yeah." "There's something weird going on with them that they can't leave." "Maybe if the day passes, it was a crazy fucking day, you know?" "They've passed out before, they've gotten sick and then gotten better." "Maybe if they wake up in the morning they will be fine." "You know?" "I mean... just..." "Don't you think that we should tell them, though?" "That's probably what is going on." "That's probably why everything is happening." "Yeah..." "What is..." "What is telling them gonna do?" "Yeah, look at how exhausted everybody is in every way." "Like, at this moment, is that going to do any good?" "I think that we should set up cameras at different points... and just, if anything happens, if Ciara comes down, if she... if anyone else leaves we'll be able to see it." "The help we need to do..." "to perform is here, now." "See it through to the end." "We need to put those cameras up." "We need to make sure..." "Reid and Martha are checking on people." "Reid is checking these yurts so they don't fly away." "What was with that storm today?" "Have you ever seen anything like that?" "And that tone?" "That noise?" "Yeah." "Well the noise is..." "obviously the weird thing." "What happened today?" "They almost died, our cars won't start, a storm hit that ripped open a yurt," "40 mile-per-hour winds, a glowing tooth, someone disappeared." "It's a lot of crazy shit in one day." "I know!" "I'm done." "Bury that fucking skull." "Bury it." "Wake up." "What?" "What?" "Karen!" "I mean, I work up in my yurt and Katie wasn't there." "Check your camera." "It's still rolling!" "Still rolling." "Rizzo!" "What is that?" "Sugar!" "What is that?" "Rizzo..." "This is Sugar's." "Rizzo." "Nathaniel!" "Nathaniel!" "Nathaniel!" "I don't think we should go in there!" "Adam, I'm serious!" "What's in there?" "It's empty."