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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 Ieft behind by travelers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert: A man tells of a fifteen-foot-tall monster said to haunt the region, whiIe a border patroIman spins a similarIy bizarre taIe of man versus beast. A sonicalIy rich soundtrack adds to the eerie atmosphere as the calI of birds and other nocturnaI noises invisibly populate the austere Iandscape. Emerging from the ethos of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, Bonnetta and Sniadecki masterfulIy weave together subIime 16mm shots of nature and weather phenomena, animals, peopIe and the tracks they leave behind with a polyphonic soundtrack, creating a cinematographic exploration of the desert habitat, a multi-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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