'A Desert' Review: A Transgressive Horror Film That Gets Under Your Skin
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. Not many films explicitly reckon with the violent, dangerous, and mysterious nature of the image, but it can be startling when they do. Joshua Erkman's new film, A Desert, can be added to that paltry pantheon which includes Salò, Man Bites Dog, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Peeping Tom, and Caché. With the obvious exceptions of the controversial Salò and Henry, A Desert may be the nastiest and most disturbing of the bunch, which says a lot. Its deconstruction of images and violence, and the way it implicates us, the audience, is truly transgressive and haunting.
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