A moving portrait of life in the US-Mexico border region, El Mar La Mar is a sensorily immersive, captivating and terrifying journey through the Sonoran Desert. The film weaves harrowing personal accounts of border crossings with the cruel rhetoric of the politicised American media, accompanied by striking footage of desert life and the remnants and detritus left behind by animals and people.
Intense and mythic and utilising a rich polyphonic soundtrack to create a vivid exploration of the desert habitat, El Mar La Mar is an experience like nothing you’ve seen, heard or felt before.
Blu-ray Special features:
• Presented from a new HD transfer approved by directors Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki.
• An exclusive newly-filmed appreciation by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans.
• Trailer.
• 16-page booklet with a new essay by film writer Patrick Gamble.
• 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.
• World premiere release on Blu-ray.
