BONUS EPISODE: A Desert w/ Joshua Erkman

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On a special bonus episode Elric is joined by Director Joshua Erkman to discuss his neo-noir horror film 'A Desert'. They discuss photography, the challenges of indie filmmaking and Josh delivers an intriguing 5 Films Because.

A Desert is released by DARK SKY FILMS and will be in limited theaters in May.

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0:00.0	You want to see it?
0:02.0	Place where it happened?
0:15.0	Yeah, I don't know it.
0:18.0	Come on, man. You're going to like it.
0:24.3	Even though it's closest to us,
0:28.1	we'll have another side that we don't want to see.
0:35.6	Ain't no photographer seen this before.
0:36.5	Hey. Welcome to the Pure Cinema Podcast. and no photographer seen this before. Thanks.
0:41.5	Welcome to the Pura Cinema Podcast.
0:44.6	I am one of your co-hosts going solo here, Albert Kane.
0:49.7	To do something we have done infrequently, but we do it occasionally, a kind of a bonus episode with filmmakers that we are either very friendly with or whose work we really like.
0:55.5	I know we did one with Amy Simetz once for She Dies Tomorrow.
0:59.3	And a friend of mine, director Joshua Erkman, joining us.
1:02.8	Welcome, sir.
1:04.2	Thank you.
1:04.8	Thank you.
1:05.8	Very happy to be here.
1:07.8	So we're here to talk about a desert.
1:10.1	So we were making films kind um, kind of like a year
1:12.9	apart, but then they started coming out at the exact same time. So we've, and we share a lot of, uh,
1:17.7	DNA, uh, creative, uh, people DNA, uh, crew DNA. Uh, but yeah, let's just, how, how are you
1:23.8	feeling right now on the verge of everything about to hit? It's exciting and a little nerve-wracking, to be honest with you.
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