Under the Shadow of the Wall

Overview

This video essay focuses on the landscapes of the Sonoran Desert—and the project of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico—as a way of investigating the manner in which something as seemingly generic as a wall can take on particular political and affective forms. This short provocation explores the ways that violent and distasteful objects create, and subsequently come to characterize, malevolent spectacles.

Directed by Taylor Genovese

Top cast

Taylor Genovese

Narrator (voice)

Laiken Jordahl

Himself (voice)

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