God's Dominion - Spiritual Seekers
1993 · 50m · Canada
Directed by Ann Harbron
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative
Dr. George Lewis searches for well-being outside traditional Christianity through New Age workshops, Indigenous practices, and the Bahá'í faith. His companion joins the quest for spiritual direction.
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A sincere spiritual documentary from '93 feels like the opposite of subversive until you realize Harbron's actually documenting the *exhaustion* of seeking itself—the film quietly refuses to endorse any of these paths, which is more heretical than it appears.
Harbron situates this inquiry within a lineage of cinema-vérité investigations of faith, but the rigor lies in her refusal to aestheticize the search; the editing honors each practice with equal formal weight, a curatorial restraint that feels increasingly rare.
The decision to follow Lewis across three entirely different spiritual frameworks without voiceover guidance forces the viewer into the companion's position—we're lost alongside them, and that structural choice does more to convey genuine spiritual vertigo than any narration could manage.