An immersive and enthralling journey by means of the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, El Mar La Mar weaves collectively harrowing oral histories from the realm with hand-processed 16mm photos of flora, fauna and objects left behind by vacationers. Topics communicate of intense, mythic experiences within the desert: A person tells of a fifteen-foot-tall monster stated to hang-out the area, whereas a border patrolman spins a equally weird story of man versus beast. A sonically wealthy soundtrack provides to the eerie environment as the decision of birds and different nocturnal noises invisibly populate the austere panorama. Rising from the ethos of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, J.P. Sniadecki's attentive documentary strategy mixes completely with Joshua Bonnetta's meditations on the materiality of movie. Collectively, they've created an expertise of the border area like nothing you've got seen, heard or felt earlier than.
