The Other Side
*total running time: 68mins
Sunday
April 23rd
*This Lot Will Be An Ikea Store In Less Than A Year.
*Meet You More Than Half Way
Director: Bill Brown
Length: 43mins
View Trailer: [QuickTime 6.63MB]
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Sunday *This Lot Will Be An Ikea Store In Less Than A Year. |
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| The Other Side Director: Bill Brown Length: 43mins View Trailer: [QuickTime 6.63MB] |
| The desert that marks the border between the U.S. and Mexico is the subject of Bill Brown’s deeply personal reflection on and exposé of the challenges surrounding Mexican immigration. Pensive, raw, and luminous images construct a montage of a land where immigrants leave traces of their struggles and hopes. Traveling along these same paths, Brown shows us “where the idea of America is up for grabs” and explores the vicissitudes of the politics and activism behind U.S. immigration policies. We ride in the cars of activists protecting the rights of migrants, set up water stations, listen to the tales of crossing attempts, learn the history of the land, and watch the shadows creep across the fixtures of life isolated in the desert. |  |
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It is Brown’s voice guiding us through the expansive space that encourages us to question U.S. assimilation and the cultural, social, and economic ramifications of migrant workers. Moreover, we are left pondering the legacies of revered leaders and the celebrated history of a now contested and complicated space where cultures clash, and civil rights seem questionable. There is a poetic rhythm that guides us through the mundane but somehow unique areas of the desert, and when Brown compares the linked fence of the Mexican border to the wall separating Israel and Palestine, we realize how significant this border is. This critical, introspective narrative confirms the experiment between the literal and abstract aesthetics representing the other side of the American dream. - Harlie Dover |
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This Lot Will Be An Ikea Store In Less Than A Year Paintball for the big screen. A gigantic paint gun, a bunny suit, and a vacant lot marked for commercialization and imminent bulldozing by corporate America. I'd be curious too. – Jill Hannon |
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Meet You More Than Half Way Establish a Mormon church in Hawaii and ask them to open a "living history museum" devoted to Polynesian Culture, and you might just develop an extreme sense of irony. The Mormons actually did this and their irony comes to life in Takahashi's film, as she explores the consequence and the fate of a community created from such ambitious and perilous roots. – Jill Hannon |
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