The read
It runs a compact 1h 17m.
Synopsis
This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From the Santa Barbara Fiestas and South Carolina's kitschy "South of the Border" tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band and Chicano rap, this film reveals the borderlands as a laboratory of hybridity that continues to ignite the popular imagination of each nation. Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music video, producing a masterful commentary that is at once poetic, disturbing and hilarious. Includes appearances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Aztlán Underground, among others.
Ratings
TMDB7/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Jesse LernerDirector
- Jesse LernerScreenplay
- Ruben OrtizDirector
- Ruben OrtizScreenplay
Cast
- Emiliano AlvarezWolverine
- Alfredo FigueroaSelf
- Guillermo Gómez-PeñaSupermojado / NaftAzteca
- Robbin LarsenNun
- Cameron JamieThe Artistic Tourist
- MictlanThemselves
- MorsaThe Beatles
- Catherine MylesNarrator
- Federico NavarreteSelf
- PekatrixisThemselves
- Hugo SánchezSelf
- Aztlan UndergroundThemselves