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Joshua Tree Part 2 is a meditative six-minute short film rooted in the wisdom that death teaches us the meanings of love. Centered on two Black queer lovers, it reimagines Black death as a beautiful dark portal, a sacred return shaped by how one has lived. Time moves like memory and spirals as the lovers share their first and last conversation, a single six-minute exchange that feels like a lifetime. Joshua Tree is an elegy, and it is our offering, a remembering of Black death as beautiful and of love as a reverent act.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$10

In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.

In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.