The following is from a 2016 review:

This documentary traces Mark’s footsteps through the sixteen year process of maintaining artistic collaboration with virtuoso guitarist Dan Leonard while negotiating life without drugs and alcohol. It empowers and exhorts anyone who has come from a difficult past, or anyone who may still be fighting to leave heavy baggage behind, that a new day is possible through the courageous pursuit of one’s dreams. The Round Trip DVD has been featured in film festivals all over the globe and translated into several languages.

The nature scenery in this DVD is shocking as the viewer is taken on a journey well beyond the standard documentary format. Kudos to the intuitive camera work of MoJo Factory Productions Scott Nurmi, who spontaneously and beautifully captures a family of deer and a family of black bears on two separate location shoots. The visual panorama with which Scott illustrates the story is as interesting and uplifting as the story itself.

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This is the closing quote at the end of the film:

The artist and his artwork are but a microcosm of the Creator and His creature. We are all living works of art capable of cooperation with the Divine Creator in realizing and aspiring to our potential beauty.

~ Mark Christopher Brandt

Text from the back cover:
Uplifting, thought-provoking and sobering, Round Trip, the Making of an Artist brings you an intimate look inside the creative process of Mark Christopher Brandt, a unique American pianist and composer.
Mark provides a motivational and inspirational narrative for each musical track on his Round Trip CD which finds its beginnings in 1997, sixteen years prior to its completion. The journey to completion of this CD is shared in this documentary.

In July of 2013, Mark entered the recording studio with guitarist Dan Leonard to finish Round Trip, which sparked the formation of No Explanations, an eclectic musical group featuring the duo in a highly creative instrumental music setting.

As Mark welcomes you inside his mind and heart, the magic of improvisational music, coupled with his simple embracing of life’s flow, is captured masterfully by videographer Scott Nurmi of Mojo Factory Productions.

Scott has filmed documentary footage for some of the music world’s most reputable artists, including Jim Carroll and the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra iconic bassist Stanley Clarke saxophonist Dave Coz and the Washington Ballet, to name a few.

Round Trip, The Making of an Artist is not only a motivational masterpiece for musicians who wish to pursue life in a world of higher art and improvisation, but also for anyone doubting their ability to excel and achieve their dreams in any walk of life.