US Premiere Pueblo Mágico: Border Stories + Madelife Pop Up Market
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“A short film that succinctly presents several humanizing vignettes about the people for whom the border seems more like a gravitational force than a geopolitical division” - Cult MTL
Montreal-based director Linx Fong Selby returns to the Trident Cafe where she grew up as a toddler to present her short documentary, Pueblo Mágico: Border Stories for the first time for US audiences.
Having grown up between Boulder and the small town of Patagonia, Arizona, nestled in the heart of the Sonoran borderlands, this film is a love letter to the US/Mexico border from Selby’s intimate experience as a member of the border community. Through the shared stories of residents whose families have spanned the US/Mexico border for generations, we delve into the personal and political day-to-day of an area currently under the spotlight of national media attention.
When we talk about the border in public discourse we refer to ‘the wall,’ hard lines and fixed identities, when in fact, upon closer look, we realize that these things do not exist. At the core of the “American dream” and identity is a shared desire for prosperity and community. The testimonies of those making lives in these border towns attest to this idea: borders are in fact fluid and varied, they challenge the dichotomy between left and right, between North and South. This is a perspective of the border less often told.
Pueblo Mágico premiered as part of an immersive exhibition at Never Apart Arts Centerin Montreal, Canada in January 2020.
This screening (7:00 pm) will happen in collaboration with a pop up arts market by Madelife, a local, Boulder arts education hub that provides resources and professional training for young artists. From 4-6:30 pm come support your local arts community and shop artworks, home goods and clothing from artists and vendors from Boulder and the surrounding Colorado area with a live DJ, video projections by local filmmaker Enrique Lopez and a performance by artist Corbin Stumon (6:30 pm).
