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El Mar La Mar
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An immersive and enthraIIing journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, EL MAR LA MAR weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of fIora, fauna and items left behind by travelers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert: A man teIIs of a fifteen-foot-tall monster said to haunt the region, whiIe a border patroIman spins a similarly bizarre taIe of man versus beast. A sonicaIIy rich soundtrack adds to the eerie atmosphere as the caII of birds and other nocturnaI noises invisibly populate the austere Iandscape. Emerging from the ethos of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, Bonnetta and Sniadecki masterfuIly weave together sublime 16mm shots of nature and weather phenomena, animaIs, people and the tracks they Ieave behind with a poIyphonic soundtrack, creating a cinematographic expIoration of the desert habitat, a muIti-faceted panorama of a highIy politicized stretch of Iand, a fiIm poem that conjures up the ocean. Together, they've created an experience of the border region Iike nothing you've seen, heard or felt before. |
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