Ordinal SWNE

The film traces the cultural and environmental influences of a soildwelling pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis and its associated disease valley fever in Californias 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 Keagys 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