Provisional Communities: 3 Videos about Tijuana
Basura Quemada
A look at various modes of refuse disposal in several communities in Tijana, Mexico. One group burns its trash in backyards and along roadsides; another community recycles materials gleaned from an enormous municipal dump; yet another group has manufactured a mountainous precipice of smoking, smoldering manure. All have unwittingly created cinematic spectacles of alchemical magic and occasionally awesome grandeur.
2007, color video, 5 minutes.
A look at various modes of refuse disposal in several communities in Tijana, Mexico. One group burns its trash in backyards and along roadsides; another community recycles materials gleaned from an enormous municipal dump; yet another group has manufactured a mountainous precipice of smoking, smoldering manure. All have unwittingly created cinematic spectacles of alchemical magic and occasionally awesome grandeur.
2007, color video, 5 minutes.
Lazaro Cardenas Electrizada
This film investigates the mostly handmade electrical infrastructure of Tijuana's exurbia, tracing one particular community's trajectory of electrical power from its governmentally sanctioned source to more informally and even surreptitiously facililitated destinations.
2006, color video, 6 minutes
Hecho a Mano
A meditative examination of the handmade domestic architecture of Tijuana's rapidly expanding working-class communities.
2008, color video, 12 minutes.