“Dead End” is an archeovisual journey along the USA-Mexico border that aims at investigating its impact on people’s lives, culture, and history, perceived as elements of a common higher narrative. Precisely, the dead end. The documentary work features captures from Google Streetview taken on both sides of the border as well as archival material such as postcards and prints. The imagery has been combined with quotes from ordinary people and historical characters, excerpts from government documents, interviews, poems, and song lyrics which bear witness of the historical, cultural, and poetic dimension that these places along the border evoke.
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