-blackedraw- Summer Jones: - Sweltering Summer -... Work

"What you see in the final cut—the way I’m breathing, the slow movements—that’s not performance," Jones admits. "That’s physiology. If I moved fast, I would have passed out. The heat forced us to be slow, deliberate, primal. You can't fake that kind of lethargic desire." The final cut of -BlackedRaw- Summer Jones runs 42 minutes. It is a slow burn in the most literal sense.

"I stopped fighting the environment," she says. "Before that shoot, I wanted perfect lighting, perfect temperature, perfect angles. Now? I want grit. I want the AC to break. I want to feel the weather. Because the audience feels it too. They aren't watching a movie; they are sweating with me." -BlackedRaw- Summer Jones - Sweltering Summer -...

The thermometer read 113 degrees Fahrenheit. The air conditioning unit on the dusty outskirts of the Las Vegas film ranch had given up precisely seven minutes before "action" was called. For most people, this was a recipe for heatstroke. For Summer Jones , it was the spark of alchemy. "What you see in the final cut—the way