Chloë Sevigny and Jena Malone sway to The Cure’s “Sugar Girl” in an excerpt from The Wait by M. Blash. Shot two hours from the director's home of Oregon, the film is the follow-up to his 2006 debut feature Lying, which also starred today's leading pair. Against an expansive, forest fire-ravaged landscape, the multitalented auteur—whose music promos for operatic indie bands Austra and Owen Pallett sit on his resume alongside exhibitions of his artwork with Jeffrey Deitch—creates a tense tale of two siblings facing the aftermath of their mother’s death: deciding to keep her body in the family home following a cryptic phone call informing them of her imminent return, a conflict ensues between the pair. “In times of stress and grief, peoples’ minds can go into fail-safe mode and believe whatever they want,” Blash says of his film’s subject. “It's really about that suspended state when one experiences something traumatic, it kind of looms and time begins to operate differently.”