UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE WALL (2022)

This video essay focuses on the landscapes of the Sonoran Desert—and the project of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico—as a way of investigating the manner in which something as seemingly generic as a wall takes on particular political and affective forms. This short provocation explores the ways that violent and distasteful objects create, and subsequently come to characterize, malevolent spectacles.

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Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Editor: Taylor Genovese

Original Score: Dick Powis

Produced by Kuznitsa Media // https://www.kuznitsa.media

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WINNER, BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

2022 ProToPost Film Festival

NOMINEE, BEST DOCUMENTARY

2022 Grand Off World Independent Film Awards

FINALIST

2022 Small Axe Radical Short Film Awards

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Golden State Film Festival (2022)

Arizona International Film Festival (2022)

FLICKFAIR Film Festival (2022)

Cannes Independent Film Festival (2022)

Ischia Global Film Festival (2022)

Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival (2022)

Hudson Valley Film Festival (2022)

Festival Internacional de Cinema Socioambiental (2022)

Grand OFF Festival (2022)

ProToPost Film Festival (2022)

Ethnografilm (2023)