Frontierland
1995This 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.
Acted in
Emiliano Alvarez
as Wolverine
Alfredo Figueroa
as Self
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
as Supermojado / NaftAzteca
Robbin Larsen
as Nun
Cameron Jamie
as The Artistic Tourist
Mictlan
as Themselves
Morsa
as The Beatles
Catherine Myles
as Narrator
Federico Navarrete
as Self
Pekatrixis
as Themselves
Hugo Sánchez
as Self
Aztlan Underground
as Themselves
David Vasquez
as Self
Carlos Venegas
as Self
Sergio Zenteno
as El padre