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Ghost Mountain: An Experiment in Primitive Living

Ghost Mountain by John McDonald


The story of the original hippie family who chose to live a seventeen-year back-to-nature dream, only to see their desert isolation take its toll. After this short was completed, more information about the story came to light and led to a feature-length version which premiered at the 2007 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose.

Filmmaker Profiles:

John McDonald

Read more about John McDonald, filmmaker of the Ghost Mountain: An Experiment in Primitive Living, which was expanded into a feature-length version called The Ghost Mountain Experiment.

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