a film by Andrea Morales
An experimental film by Andrea Morales, a reality that has existed as long as we have, has been invisibilized and displaced in its relationship to our shared desire to live unafraid. These scenes from the Rio Grande Valley near the Brownsville/Matamorros crossing in the summer of 2018 reflect back the ongoing dialogue regarding the tension of a politicized border between two settler states and the costs it takes on dignity and survival.
This film screened on the exterior of the Lafayette County Courthouse in August 2019 during the Project(ion) festival in Oxford, Mississippi.
Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer, journalist and educator born in Peru, raised in Miami, now living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. Her personal work attempts to lens the issues of displacement, disruption and magic. Adding glimpses of daily life, meaningful or mundane, to the record through photography is central to her practice.
She has worked as a photojournalist in newsrooms small and large, such as The Concord Monitor, The Lima News and The New York Times, with equal enthusiasm. She’s also worked at the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project with students in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.