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Film Screening: “Sleep Dealer”

March 8, 2022 @ 11:50 am - 1:30 pm EST

“Sleep Dealer” (Mexico/USA) Latino filmmaker Alex Rivera’s 2008 film, Sleep Dealer, depicts a militarized world of walled borders where a globalized workforce sends its labor North via cyberspace from remote “factories.” While ostensibly science fiction, the film alludes to recent concerns such as water privatization, televised drone patrols in U.S. border towns, and the structural violence experienced by maquila workers, to mention a few. Unusual for a First World lens, we see the causes of migration shifting family and community relations and thrusting migrant workers into new realms where they connect with el otro lado using technology in new ways.

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Date:
March 8, 2022
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11:50 am - 1:30 pm EST
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A-226