Frontierland

Frontierland — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 16, 1995
• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Ruben Ortiz

Frontierland — Cast

E

Emiliano Alvarez Wolverine

A

Alfredo Figueroa Self Guillermo Gómez-Peña Supermojado / NaftAzteca

R

Robbin Larsen Nun

C

Cameron Jamie The Artistic Tourist

M

Mictlan Themselves

M

Morsa The Beatles

C

Catherine Myles Narrator