| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 43 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1999. |
| Summary |
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Candid interviews with Mexican women factory and sex workers, as well as activists and journalists, are combined with scripted voiceover analysis, screen text, scenes and sounds recorded on site, and found footage to give new insights into the gendered conditions inscribed by the high-tech industry at its low-wage end. "[This] video skillfully captures processes of exploitation in its gendered, sexualized, and racialized forms, together with a sophisticated epistemological interrogation about how knowledge of the "border" is produced, performed, and materialized." Marjolein van der Veen, Wellesley College. AWARDS, FESTIVALS, and SCREENINGS Biennale of the Image in Movement, St. Gervais, Geneva, Palmeres Award Documentary Video and Film Festival, Kassel Werkleitz Festival, Netherlands Govett-Brester Art Gallery, New Zealand Women in the Director's Chair Film and Video Festival InSITE and L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY Films de Femmes, Creteil |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Indexed Term |
Gender Studies |
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Human Rights |
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Latin American Studies |
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Race and Class Studies |
| Added Author |
Biemann, Ursula, 1955- filmmaker.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1125651 Kanopy |
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