Frontierland
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.
Production Companies
Fideicomiso Para la Cultura Mexico-Estados Unidos, Fronterilandia Productions
Languages
English, Spanish
Cast
Emiliano Alvarez
Wolverine
Alfredo Figueroa
Self
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Supermojado / NaftAzteca
Robbin Larsen
Nun
Cameron Jamie
The Artistic Tourist
Mictlan
Themselves
Morsa
The Beatles
Catherine Myles
Narrator
Federico Navarrete
Self
Pekatrixis
Themselves
Hugo Sánchez
Self
Aztlan Underground
Themselves
David Vasquez
Self
Carlos Venegas
Self
Sergio Zenteno
El padre
