El Mar La Mar
ABOUT
The sun beats down mercilessly on all those who cross the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and the United States. Their traces and remains accumulate, fade, decompose and become inscribed into the topography of the landscape, making the absent ever-present as life and death, beauty and drea continue to exist alongside one another.
JP Sniadecki is a filmmaker and media anthropologist whose work includes A Shape of Things to Come (2020), El Mar La Mar (2017), The Iron Ministry (2014), Yumen (2013), People’s Park (2012), Foreign Parts (2010), and Demolition (2008). He is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a member of the China Observer editorial board, and a professor at Northwestern University, where he also serves as the Director of the MFA program in Documentary Media.