Overview

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.

Top Cast

E

Emiliano Alvarez

Wolverine

A

Alfredo Figueroa

Self

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Supermojado / NaftAzteca

R

Robbin Larsen

Nun

C

Cameron Jamie

The Artistic Tourist

M

Mictlan

Themselves

M

Morsa

The Beatles

C

Catherine Myles

Narrator

F

Federico Navarrete

Self

P

Pekatrixis

Themselves

Hugo Sánchez

Self

A

Aztlan Underground

Themselves