Stuck in between the Hollywood star system and nascent independent cinema, Richard Pryor never got the roles he deserved, or the roles we needed him to play.
Repeated mechanical labor—such as beauty work—can have a stultifying effect. But under the right conditions, it can also bring about a state of presence, by dint of its ephemeral quality.
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.