For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

The inherent violence of captured images has been exhaustively analyzed over the past century, from Barthes to Sontag, and yet the terrain of critical theory rarely crosses over into cinematic praxis.

From a solitary photographer capturing desert rock formations to abandoned movie theaters housing unexpected evils, Joshua Erkman's directorial debut "A Desert" is consistently preoccupied with images ...

With Joshua Erkman’s eerie horror/thriller, A Desert, which centers around a photographer lost in a Southwestern desert while on an expedition to photograph its abandoned movie theaters, in theaters ...

A washed-up photographer finds himself embroiled in an eerie mystery in Joshua Erkman’s strange, singular thriller. By Calum Marsh When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

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