The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some reflections on the new documentary Shadowland: “It’s clear that Shadowland writer/director Otso Tiainen and co-writer Kalle Kinnunen want so much to embrace the landscape of the Montségur and the surrounding French Pyrenees and the esoteric and occult religious community that understand it as a place between worlds. The cinematography and music do so much to evoke a specific sense of place–of ancient wonder and beauty of mossy brooks and mists moving across ageless peaks.  And Tiainen and Kinnunen tell a story of personal reinvention and the stories that people tell and insert themselves into for meaning. It’s just that while Shadowland begins as a story of spiritual seeking, it becomes a story of one man, Australian filmmaker Richard Stanley, using these stories for his personal benefit and at the expense of others.”

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