Frontierland / Fronterilandia (1995) (excerpt)

The border in the popular imagination of the U.S. and Mexico.

Co-directed and edited by Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz Torres

This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From the Santa Barbara Fiestas and South Carolina's kitschy South of the Border tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band and Chicano rap, this film reveals the borderlands as a laboratory of hybridity that continues to ignite the popular imagination of each nation. Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music video, producing a masterful commentary that is at once poetic, disturbing and hilarious. Includes appearances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Aztlán Underground, among others.

1995, 16mm, color, 77:00. In English, Spanish, Nahuatl, with subtitles in English and Spanish. Original musical composition by Gabriela Ortiz. Released on DVD in 2005.

UPC: 049168032867

DVD includes important bonus material on border culture and the filmmakers.

Jesse Lerner is a documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films include T.S.H. (2004), The American Egypt (2001), and Ruins (1999). He has curated projects for the Robert Flaherty Seminar, the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, and the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao. He is currently an associate professor of media studies at the Claremont Colleges.

Rubén Ortiz-Torres is a Mexican-born artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work spans a diverse range of media including and often combining photography, film and video, sculpture, and customized cars and machines. Ortiz-Torres is currently a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego.

This DVD is part of an ongoing Chicano Cinema Recovery Project in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television Archive. .

Program content © Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. All rights reserved.

Package Design and Summary © 2005 UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Super-8 and high-8 video, B & W and color, 56 minute (broadcast) and 78 minute (film) versions.

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