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 can take 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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Taylor Genovese

Narrator (voice)

Laiken Jordahl

Himself (voice)

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