Witness Underground Podcast
Artists Escaping Cults - Podcast - Documentary - Series
Follow the Witness Underground Podcast as we dive in to stories of artists escaping cults from around the globe.
Build that ecclectic playlist with art from people who successfully navigated cult mind control. Created by the team who brought the award winning feature documentary by the same name, the director and featured artists interview fascinating artists, musicians, actors, directors, authors etc. who also left a cult. Through making our documentary, artists all over the world emerged with amazing music, art, and stories. Listen in and let us know what you think.
Film short synopsis:
Witness Underground is a feature documentary that reveals the insular DIY music community that emerged within a high-control cult. Music, fame, and success are typically forbidden in this faith, who instruct its members to “beware of independent thinking.”
The artists at the heart of the music scene have their faith tested in deeply personal ways. They battle for positive mental health and push the boundaries of their religion’s norms, where leaving means being banned from interacting with your entire family and social circle for life.
Although severely restricted, they create the record label Nuclear Gopher and produce over 30 albums of earnest and personal music that spans singer/songwriter, riot grrrl, psychedelic rock, pop, EDM, shoegaze, and post-rock. Carefully curated songs and live performances punctuate their stories of friendship, deep loss, and personal growth.
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Witness Underground Podcast
The Bloody Tuesdays in our Motion Picture Soundtrack
Watch this episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/7TILtTd4lIY
The Bloody Tuesdays, David Quesada, has been an excellent collaborative partner since the day we met. After we met and recorded our episodes together, I had another opportunity to edit our feature documentary, Witness Underground, which we discussed in this episode, and I cut into the intro, a moment from one of his songs, Jehovah Never Knows, from his sophomore album, Hymns of a Millenials Dawn. I'm excited for you to hear it and I'm so proud to be able to feature this track in our official Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Listen and Buy his Exit Trilogy here:
https://thebloodytuesdays.bandcamp.com
Our Season One episode with him for the Witness Underground Podcast is still my favorite episode (Pt 1 & Pt 2). I have since emulated this format in the second season as much as possible. I feel like I found my creative voice with The Bloody Tuesdays in showing off great music and story telling. Check out those episodes here:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/o7eIsAEnhZ4
Part 2: https://youtu.be/7n90UH6qksM
Witness Underground is the only film to humanize cult life & survival via self-expression.
Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses. 🚀
We successfully hit our goal on Kickstarter to release Witness Underground thanks to your support and shares, and the hard work of David Quesada and artists like him, who are on the official soundtrack, and continue to put out incredible music.
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-Scott