Border Stories dubs itself “a Mosaic Documentary,” and, not unlike mosaics, this collection of 22 shorts has an elevated, canonical, yet still modest air. The short, five-minute-or-less film vignettes successfully bring each side of the U.S.-Mexican border closer together in our minds by drawing attention to our shared universality and humanity. Made up of a three-person crew (plus one web producer), and ring-led by Ben Fundis, each episode is smartly shot, and the interviews well-conducted. One of the more compelling pieces concerns Jose Rivera, an 18-year-old who, though raised in America, was deported to Mexico after getting into a fight with a friend and left in jail due to lack of a social security number. As Rivera is interviewed on a bench outside in Nogales, we become aware of the backdrop of locals just behind him, who appear indifferent to his story. The starkness of Rivera’s tale, along...
- 5/28/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tilzy.tv
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