Frontierland (1995)
This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From the Santa Barbara Fiestas and South Carolina's kitschy "South of the Border" tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band and Chicano rap, this film reveals the borderlands as a laboratory of hybridity that continues to ignite the popular imagination of each nation. Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music video, producing a masterful commentary that is at once poetic, disturbing and hilarious. Includes appearances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Aztlán Underground, among others.
Directors:
Ruben Ortiz, Jesse Lerner.
Writers:
Ruben Ortiz, Jesse Lerner.
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Emiliano Alvarez as Wolverine |
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Alfredo Figueroa as Self |
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña as Supermojado / NaftAzteca |
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Robbin Larsen as Nun |
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Cameron Jamie as The Artistic Tourist |
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Mictlan as Themselves |
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Morsa as The Beatles |
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Catherine Myles as Narrator |
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Federico Navarrete as Self |
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Pekatrixis as Themselves |
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Hugo Sánchez as Self |
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Aztlan Underground as Themselves |
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David Vasquez as Self |
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Carlos Venegas as Self |
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Sergio Zenteno as El padre |
| Writing | Ruben Ortiz | Screenplay |
| Directing | Ruben Ortiz | Director |
| Directing | Jesse Lerner | Director |
| Writing | Jesse Lerner | Screenplay |
