Featuring the best of border cinema, the Trans-Border Institute?s annual Border Film Week will showcase documentary and feature films offering a broad vision of border culture.
Evening Film & Discussion Topic(s): Borders and Geopolitics
5:00 PM Traces
In this video essay contemplative images, confessions, theoretical reflections and an enigmatic subject of electronic music are fused to form a meditation on border life between the US and Mexico. Based on years of ethnographic work in Tijuana and ascetic 24-hour schedule, artist and anthropologist refracts his own experience in the region to try to carve out a living and textured portrait of the wall separating Tijuana and San Diego. These are images of a rusty wall, topography rebel surveillance structures decaying, furtive moments of undocumented migrants crossing dystopic landscapes. Fiamma Montezemolo, Director / 20 minutes.
Please Note:
Monday - Wednesday films screen at Peace and Justice Theatre
Thursday - Friday films screen at Warren Auditorium
Friday, March 28 - 5:00 PM
For more information, please visit:
Evening Film & Discussion Topic(s): Borders and Geopolitics
5:00 PM Traces
In this video essay contemplative images, confessions, theoretical reflections and an enigmatic subject of electronic music are fused to form a meditation on border life between the US and Mexico. Based on years of ethnographic work in Tijuana and ascetic 24-hour schedule, artist and anthropologist refracts his own experience in the region to try to carve out a living and textured portrait of the wall separating Tijuana and San Diego. These are images of a rusty wall, topography rebel surveillance structures decaying, furtive moments of undocumented migrants crossing dystopic landscapes. Fiamma Montezemolo, Director / 20 minutes.
Please Note:
Monday - Wednesday films screen at Peace and Justice Theatre
Thursday - Friday films screen at Warren Auditorium
Friday, March 28 - 5:00 PM
For more information, please visit:
