Cinematography
The film traces the cultural and environmental influences of a soil-dwelling, pathogenic fungus, Coccidioides immitis, and its associated disease, valley fever, in California's Central Valley. Interweaving past, present and mythological time, the film draws upon historical and cultural references, including the plight of migrants during the Depression, the spread of the disease in recent years, contemporary theories of climate change, and the significance of the desert wind in ancient Assyria. In Ruperto and Keagy’s film, natural phenomena remain neutral, fleeing from any kind of judgment and avoiding binary oppositions of positive and negative, destruction and regeneration, life and death.
First Assistant Camera
18번째 생일을 맞은 조니 페트리는 메인에 있는 농장을 물려받게 되었음을 알게 되었다. 새로운 삶에 대한 갈망을 갖고 조니는 집을 떠나 농장으로 향한다. 그러나, 점점 과거를 파헤칠수록 그의 아버지가 행했던 끔찍한 연구에 대해 알게 되는데, 설상가상으로 조니가 집에 돌아옴과 동시에 집에 설치되어있던 함정이 실행되기 시작하는데…"
