Everyday Boundaries and Returning Borderlands: The Films of Dr. Mael Vizcarra - Screening


 History     Nov 12 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Online

Join us for a live streaming of Dr. Mael Vizcarra’s documentary films, “La Línea” (2019) and “Pánico en Pánuco” (2020) preceded by her introduction.

Dr. Mael Vizcarra’s work explores the everyday life of working-class people along the Mexico-U.S. border through filmmaking. “La Línea” focuses on The Line, or the border checkpoint between the United States and Mexico and is the most transited international land border in the world. It is here that hundreds of vendors earn a living selling goods and services on the Tijuana side to those waiting to cross into the United States. “La Línea” follows a few of these vendors in their day-to-day and records the every-changing urban landscape of a city that is perpetually redefining itself against the backdrop of its reputation. “Pánico en Pánuco” is about narco-aesthetic and how narco power manifests affectively and as an embodied experience in the familiar realm in contemporary Mexico. The discussion centers around film footage documenting Dr. Vizcarra’s family trip to Sinaloa to visit her father’s birthplace in the small mining town of Pánuco when the trip was disrupted by the threat of narco violence.

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