background
main page
Action
user_icon

Performing the Border

1999

favorite
favorite
Performing the Border

Genre: Documentary

Awards:

Runtime: 43 min

Average vote: 0

Release date: 1999-01-01

Production Countries: CH

Director: Ursula Biemann

Plot:

A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.

Cast:

Images

Crew:

Recommdended

top