First Person Cinema Welcomes Alex Rivera - (Rescheduled for Wednesday night, 3/17)
For borders to be enforced as sites of social and material control, there must always be an accompanying system of visual production.Ìý Today, that system includes drones, infrared cameras, biometrics, and more.Ìý For over twenty-five years Alex Rivera has been making moving images to contest those systems with visions of a different kind of border.Ìý In this brief talk and screening, Rivera will discuss and present selections of his award-winning moving image work, including,Ìý±Ê²¹±è²¹±è²¹±èáÌý(1995),ÌýWhy Cybraceros?Ìý(1997),ÌýThe Borders TrilogyÌý(2003),ÌýSleep DealerÌý(2008), andÌýThe InfiltratorsÌý(2019).
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This event is now taking place on Wednesday, March 17th at 7:00pm.
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