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PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK <\/a> to view the 2020 CLLAS Distinguished Lecture with Alex Rivera. Rivera is a filmmaker who\u2019s been telling ground-breaking Latinx stories for more than twenty years. His first feature film, a cyberpunk thriller set in Tijuana, Mexico,\u00a0Sleep Dealer<\/em>, won multiple awards at Sundance and was screened around the world.\u00a0 Rivera\u2019s second feature film, a documentary\/scripted hybrid set in an immigrant detention center,\u00a0The Infiltrators<\/em>, won both the Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.\u00a0 Rivera\u2019s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Open Society Institute, and many others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beni in Processing, an image from Alex Rivera’s latest film The Infiltrators<\/em> (2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For borders to be enforced as sites of social and material control, there must always be an accompanying system of visual production.  Today, that system includes drones, infrared cameras, biometrics, and more.  For over twenty-five years Alex Rivera has been using the language of moving images to contest those systems with visions of a different kind of border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLLAS invites you to view Rivera\u2019s latest film, The Infiltrators<\/em> (2019)<\/strong>, before attending the CLLAS Distinguished Lecture. Find the streaming information at https:\/\/theinfiltrators.vhx.tv\/checkout\/university-of-oregon-presents-the-infiltrators\/purchase<\/a>. The code for free access is: CLLASFILM. It can be entered by checking the promo code box below the credit card inputs. Please note that you will have 72 hours to watch the film after opening the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Infiltrators <\/em>(2019) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center \u2013 on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri try to pull off their heist \u2013 a kind of \u2018prison break\u2019 in reverse \u2013 things don\u2019t go according to plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These events are part of the CLLAS two-year theme (2019-2021), \u201cThe Politics of Language in the Americas: Power, Culture, History, and Resistance<\/a>,\u201d and are cosponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and the new Latinx Studies minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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