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.
Rini Yun Keagy
Director
Dr. Antje Lauer
Joe Seely
Gleason Bauer
Jane Edith Wilson
Edie Yvonne
Peter Lucas
Abdel Dalia
Frank Cervantes
Justine Park
Koyaanisqatsi78%
Safe70%
Room 23761%
Dark Waters75%
Public Speaking70%
Invasion of the Body Snatchers72%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Twelve Monkeys76%
Samsara80%
Sherman's March67%
Lorenzo's Oil70%
Die My Love61%
Erin Brockovich74%
The Andromeda Strain71%
Volcano59%
Baraka82%
One Mile: Chapter One70%
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet84%
How High63%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
