Un soleil de plomb s’abat sur tous ceux qui traversent le désert du Sonora entre le Mexique et les États-Unis : les quelques personnes qui y vivent et les immigrants sans-papiers les plus démunis qui essaient de passer la frontière. Leurs traces et leurs dépouilles s’accumulent, s’estompent, se décomposent et s’inscrivent dans la topographie du paysage. Ce qui est absent devient présent, de même que la vie et la mort, la beauté et l’effroi, la lumière hostile et les nuits constellées d’étoiles coexistent encore et toujours.
Directors | Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki |
Actor | Benjamin R. Taylor |
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In El Mar La Mar, Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki document the US-Mexico border where it traverses the harsh Sonoran Desert. The film oscillates between images and sounds, putting oral histories into contrast with visual meditations. The voices and bodies of those that have traversed the border and those that have perished haunt the images and the spaces that Bonnetta and Sniadecki recreate on the screen. The film is a lyrical and harrowing journey resulting from a multitude of dual encounters: The United States and Mexico. Voices and silence. A sound artist and an anthropologist. Landscape and bodies. Urgency and patience. El Mar and La Mar.
Benjamin R. Taylor
Director and programmer, VISIONS
Founding member of La lumière collective
In El Mar La Mar, Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki document the US-Mexico border where it traverses the harsh Sonoran Desert. The film oscillates between images and sounds, putting oral histories into contrast with visual meditations. The voices and bodies of those that have traversed the border and those that have perished haunt the images and the spaces that Bonnetta and Sniadecki recreate on the screen. The film is a lyrical and harrowing journey resulting from a multitude of dual encounters: The United States and Mexico. Voices and silence. A sound artist and an anthropologist. Landscape and bodies. Urgency and patience. El Mar and La Mar.
Benjamin R. Taylor
Director and programmer, VISIONS
Founding member of La lumière collective