Director Alex Rivera will be present for a Q&A session following the screening.
Building on the director’s past experiments with digital animation, this feature-length sci fi narrative takes us into the not-so-distant Mexican future, in which the world is divided by closed borders, yet linked together by a digital network that connects people around the world. Protagonist Memo (Luis Fernando) is fascinated with home-grown communications, which leads him to migrate to the U.S.-Mexico border in search of work in a hi-tech maquiladora. There, he meets Luz (Leonor Varela), a beautiful aspiring journalist who collects stories and helps Memo to “plug in” to the Tijuana labor market. A series of life-changing realizations ensue.
ALEX RIVERA is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. He is a Sundance Fellow and a Rockefeller Fellow. Rivera's work, which addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor, has also been screened at The Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, The Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues. Over the past ten years Rivera has been making work that illuminates two massive and parallel realities: the globalization of information through the internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through mass migration. His previous work includes Papapapá (USA 1995), Why Cybraceros? (USA 1997), and The Sixth Section (USA/Mexico 2003) which was featured on PBS POV (Point of View).
Free and open to the public. Parking is metered in the Theater Arts lot.
For more information or accommodations contact 831/459-5608 or email elcentro@ucsc.edu.
Sponsored by: El Centro (Chicano Latino Resource Center), Latin American and Latino Studies, Social Documentation (Community Studies), Porter College, Film and Digital Media, and CARE (Community and Resource Empowerment-e2).
