A DESERT

The shocking debut thriller from director Joshua Erkman, A DESERT is vicious doom and precise horror splattered and shattered across the rural back alleys of the Southwest. Photographer Alex (Kai Lennox, GREEN ROOM) wants to take pictures of the real America: a brutalist desert full of trauma, liminal buildings and ugly beauty that might revive his career. When Alex chances upon a reckless couple in a dingy motel, he suddenly disappears without a trace. Enter the shady detective (David Yow of iconic post-punk band The Jesus Lizard) who searches for whereabouts in this nerve-shredding slow burn.