Resourceful low-budget imagining of future relations with Our Neighbor to the South: the border closed, water rights protected by armed guard, anti-terrorist airstrikes as reality TV, and cheap Mexican labor by remote-control robotics (hence the coinage, “cybraceros”). The grainy, gritty digital image constantly pulls you back, and down, to present reality. With Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, and Jacob Vargas; written and directed by Alex Rivera. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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