Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki's El Mar La Mar is a moving portrait of life and death in the US-Mexico border region, 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 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.
Presented from a new HD transfer approved by the filmmakers, El Mar La Mar makes its world premiere on Blu-ray. This region-free edition from Second Run also features a brand new appreciation of the film by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans, and a booklet with new writing by Patrick Gamble.
