Third part of The American West Trilogy - the other two parts being Nome Road System and Milltown, Montana (VdR, 2010) -, the film is a poignant and multi-layered portrait of the life and landscape of the Mojave Desert. Structured in a loose way, that almost allows comparisons to John Fahey’s spare fingerpicking, like a skeletal blues lost in time, the film observes how life we...