The Mountain

Directed by Rick Alverson

Produced by Vice Studios

A dark, meditative examination of institutional cruelty and complicity set in 1950s America, where a young man's documentation of a charismatic doctor's lobotomy procedures becomes a reckoning with his own family trauma.

1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.