Borderland | The Line Within

Borderland l The Line Within is a critique of my country’s inhumane treatment of people arriving in the U.S. It’s about the use of immigration as a gateway to fascist ideology and political power. I’ve been making films internationally for the past 20 years but feel it is important to have a critique of my own country now. I searched among Americans finding creative ways to resist the cruelty of our immigration policies, but instead I found a dynamic movement growing among undocumented immigrants to organize, educate themselves, demand their rights and become a force. Weaving the story together by scraping the web and invoking the Freedom of Information Act, I chose a trio of experimental digital humanists artfully exposing the business of immigration, a multibillion-dollar system to stop people from crossing the border, incarcerate them and deport them. Making this film would take five years.