It's easy to create borders. Indeed, we go creating metaphorical borders, conscient or unconsciously. In the same way, we taught generation through generation to make borders, perhaps for safety and protection. Still, we never thought about how our desires to cozy shelter us towards a paradoxical idle hiatus.
According to Ghabra and Calafell (2019), they tell us about the creation of borders by comparing the creation of the wall of Israel and the wall of the United States. Their reflection leads us to understand the true consequences of border closures and how it affects local people. Although for some people, the wall of Israel is the perfect example to contain the country’s problems caused by external affectations, in general, the authors talks about the representation of this problem through the cinema. They mention a class that caught my attention, about Monsters in Popular Culture, where they analyzed horror movies and their way of manifesting racism and sexism. Then, my reflection led me to remember a Norman McLaren film based on stop motion and live motion; it represents how humans create borders. Perhaps motivated by something as simple as a flower, we can shine our most fearsome monsters.
Initial release: 1963 (Finland) Director: Norman McLaren Producer: Norman McLaren Music composed by: Norman McLaren Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Inspired by:
Intersectional Reflexivity and Decolonial Rhetorics: From Palestine to Aztlán. Ghabra and Calafell (2019)
From:
“Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise. Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions.” Romero García and Damián Baca (2019)
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