Video, color, 60min. In this project I map the cultural fluctuations along the Mexico-USA Border through time. This documentary makes use of multi-sited ethnographic methodologies, and uses video as dialogical tool.
This is a memorial service for a teenage girl who crossed the border to re-unite with her husband. After 9/11 the great majority of man are not able to go back to their homes after seasonal work, as result and in recent years, we have seen more women attempting to cross the Arizona's desert. Unfortunately, memorials such as Prudencia's have become a familiar scene. In this clip, an interfaith group met to pray for Prudencia, the sand on the ground was still fresh from liquids in her body.
Humane Borders has been actively picking up items left behind by migrants. What people call trash, are indispensable objects, cultural revealtions, the serpent's skin... the last traces of crossers un-becoming.
Ramón had been waiting for days at a No More Deaths! camp in Nogales, Mexico. He is one of the hundreds of deportees who cannot go back home because he has lost everything and can't even take the bus, or make a phone call. He speaks of his experience at a Detention Center in the USA after having walked in the desert of Sonora, Mexico and the desert of Arizona for days with his son.
Interview with Margo, a pro-bono lawyer who has helped dozens of migrants in understanding their rights, and representing them in the recent operations where immigrant workers are persuaded to plead guilty to charges of impersonation for faster processing.
Immigrants round table interview. A group of recently detained immigrants speak of their personal experience and views on raids, family speration, detention, court procedings, the law, and deportation.
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People’s Radio 45min. In this work, Beatriz documents the battle for free speech and the airwaves after the lock out of KPFA, a community supported radio station in Berkeley, CA. This non-traditional documentary engulfs the viewer in the people’s struggle, creativity, and determination.
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16mm, sound, color, 10min. experimental documentary and a Mural for the Buffalo’s Pan Am 2001 Exhibition, in Art Accross Borders, N.Y. Beatriz F.G. and Sonia M. visit the kitchens of Iroquois, Jamaican, African and Cuban women who speak of their culinary traditions and their preservation or adaptation of foods in the U.S.A. The conversations duel on acquisition of taste, memory, tradition, and ritual
