El mar la mar

Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

In this lyrical and highly topical film, the Sonoran Desert, among the deadliest routes taken by those crossing from Mexico to the United States, is depicted a place of dramatic beauty and merciless danger.

DIRECTOR
Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
94 minutes

Q&As with J.P Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta following the screenings on 9/29 and 10/1

The first collaboration between film and sound artist Bonnetta and filmmaker/anthropologist Sniadecki (The Iron Ministry, NYFF52) is a lyrical and highly topical film in which the Sonoran Desert, among the deadliest routes taken by those crossing from Mexico to the United States, is depicted a place of dramatic beauty and merciless danger. Haunting 16mm images of the unforgiving landscape and the human traces within it are supplemented with an intricate soundtrack of interwoven sounds and oral testimonies. Urgent yet never didactic, El mar la mar allows this symbolically fraught terrain to take shape in vivid sensory detail, and in so doing, suggests new possibilities for the political documentary. A Cinema Guild release.

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