I saw this @ SIFF - right after his film 'The Long Twilight' which honestly I preferred. The main actor here reminded me quite a bit of John Lithgow. The disturbing climactic scene was equal parts murder scene from the end of 'Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me' and ape-murder-with-bone scene from 2001. I had just seen 'November' a few days before. I was struck with similarities to this film - several short segments each preceded by a still card with a short name. In November we had 'Denial', 'Acceptance' ... here we had 'The Sky', 'The Dirt' ... In both November and this film we have an ambiguous mixture of events preceding along a general time line and the same events be relived but slightly differently. Both November & this film were created in 2004, with November "being written in 2 weeks" - perhaps enough time for this film to be the basis for November (which of course has a much thicker veneer of Lynchian visual & sound effects).
