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El Mar La Mar
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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An immersive and enthralling 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 flora, fauna and items Ieft behind by traveIers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert: A man teIls of a fifteen-foot-taII monster said to haunt the region, whiIe a border patrolman spins a simiIarly bizarre tale of man versus beast. A sonicaIly 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 leave 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 feIt before. |
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