The Natural State (2026)

In 1989, Julie Thayer, a well-to-do New York mother, traded her city comforts for the Swiss Alps on a mission to dismantle her own ego. Her unlikely guide? U.G. Krishnamurti—a fiercely unconventional Indian thinker who shunned disciples, rejected financial support, and bluntly sent seekers packing. Julie refused to leave, capturing the entire collision on camera. *The Natural State* weaves together that long-buried footage—hundreds of hours untouched for decades—with Julie’s intimate diaries, chronicling how U.G.'s relentless psychological dismantling swung her between euphoric highs and crushing lows, ultimately testing the very limits of selfhood.