The montage as a game space in the film El mar la mar

thresholds and glimpses of a migratory crossing

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006715

Keywords:

migrants, constellation, forms of life, heterotopia

Abstract

From El mar la mar, a film documentary that narrates the stories and testimonies of migrants who take the risk of crossing from Mexico to the USA through the Sonoran desert, the article will probe how this cinematographic exercise allows opening of paths, of some “other spaces” constituted by the film in the desert immensity: in them, we will try to consider the singularity of the lives that make the difficult crossing towards the border. We will approach these existences through the voices that challenge us from the objects left behind, the reports of themselves offered between tears, the words of encouragement written to those who will continue to come in search of a dream...

Author Biographies

  • Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pesquisadora 1D do CNPq. Doutora. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. E-mail: angelasalgueiro@gmail.com. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2253-0374.

  • Ricardo Lessa Filho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Pós-Doutorado (com bolsa do CNPq) no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Doutor. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. E-mail: ricardolessafilho@hotmail.com. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9814-1626.

  • Luiza Araújo Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

    Discente do curso de mestrado em Direitos Humanos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Jurídicas da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Graduada. João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. E-mail: luiza.oliveira.direito1@gmail.com. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-7423.

Published

2023-05-29

How to Cite

Salgueiro Marques, Ângela C., Lessa Filho, R., & Araújo Oliveira, L. (2023). The montage as a game space in the film El mar la mar: thresholds and glimpses of a migratory crossing. REMHU, Revista Interdisciplinar Da Mobilidade Humana, 31(67), 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006715

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