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Directed by Dustin Guy Defa

God Is an Artist

10m

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2015 • United States

In this idiosyncratic documentary, director Dustin Guy Defa travels to Detroit to contemplate the significance and (il)legality of street art—and finds himself tempted to join a Satanic cult along the way.

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