1970's movie where ending is a broken dimension, desert

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

A landscape that has captivated many filmmakers and enshrined itself in our collective cinematic lore is here abstracted to its foundation: colour, shape, light and shadow. Through the high contrast geometry of its image, the film brings us further from its popular references and closer to the essence of the cinematic experience.