El mar la mar / a film by Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bonnetta, Joshua, film director.

Sniadecki, J. P., film director.

Cinema Guild, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Sonoran Desert.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Experimental films.

Ethnographic films.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : color illustration ; 18 cm)

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Cinema Guild, [2020]

Language Note:

English and Spanish dialogue with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1; Dolby Digital 2.0.

digital

optical

stereo

surround

Dolby digital 2.0

Dolby digital 5.1

video file

DVD video

Summary:

An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, the film weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of flora, fauna, and items left behind by travelers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert: A man tells of a fifteen-foot-tall monster said to haunt the region, while a border patrolman spins a similarly bizarre tale of man versus beast. A sonically rich soundtrack adds to the eerie atmosphere as the call of birds and other nocturnal noises invisibly populate the austere landscape.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Wide screen.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2017.

Special features: essay by ULCA professor of anthropology Jason de León (on insert); theatrical trailer.

OCLC:

1395016889

Publisher Number:

881164001184

CG000170 Cinema Guild