Directed by Nina Menkes | 85 mins | 1996
Described by critics as her most radical work and by the filmmaker as her greatest, the fifth film Nina Menkes made with her sister Tinka in the lead—here, a Marine captain overseeing a murder investigation out in the Mojave—would also be their final collaboration. The psychological toll its making took on both parties is mirrored in the haunting puissance of this grisly tale, inspired by true events and conjured through Menkes’s trademark, single-shot tableaux.