Border Film Project
Encyclopedia
The Border Film Project is an art project examining United States–Mexico border
immigration from two perspectives. The project gave disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the United States
–Mexico
border
: illegal migrants crossing the desert and the Minutemen volunteers
trying to stop them. Photos reveal facets of the dispute previously unavailable to the public: men hopping fences, riding trucks, and sleeping in the desert. The photographs are now displayed at art galleries across the country and a book was released on April 1, 2007 through Harry N. Abrams.
United States–Mexico border
The United States–Mexico border is the international border between the United States and Mexico. It runs from Imperial Beach, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east, and traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major...
immigration from two perspectives. The project gave disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
–Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
border
Border
Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states and other subnational entities. Some borders—such as a state's internal administrative borders, or inter-state borders within the Schengen Area—are open and...
: illegal migrants crossing the desert and the Minutemen volunteers
The Minuteman Project Inc.
The Minuteman Project is an activist organization started in April 2005 by a group of private individuals in the United States to monitor the United States – Mexico border's flow of illegal immigrants. Co-founded by Jim Gilchrist, the name derives from the Minutemen, militiamen who fought in the...
trying to stop them. Photos reveal facets of the dispute previously unavailable to the public: men hopping fences, riding trucks, and sleeping in the desert. The photographs are now displayed at art galleries across the country and a book was released on April 1, 2007 through Harry N. Abrams.
Related Reading
- Susan Harbage Page and Inés Valdez, "Residues of Border Control", Southern Spaces, 17 April 2011.