# Border Film Project

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The '''Border Film Project''' ({{langx|es|Proyecto fotográfico de frontera}}) is an art project examining [United States–Mexico border](/source/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico_border) immigration from two perspectives. The project gave disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the [United States](/source/United_States)–[Mexico](/source/Mexico) [border](/source/border): illegal migrants crossing the desert and the [Minutemen volunteers](/source/The_Minuteman_Project_Inc.) trying to stop them.<ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Hartman |title=Immigration Captured On Camera |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-captured-on-camera/ |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Broadcasting Inc. |date=2006-11-03 |access-date=2007-05-13 }}</ref> Photos reveal facets of the dispute previously unavailable to the public: men hopping fences, riding trucks, and sleeping in the desert.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20051120.html |title=Border Film Project |accessdate=2007-05-13 |author=Yahoo! Inc. |date=2005-11-05 |work=Yahoo! Picks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527143329/http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20051120.html |archive-date=2007-05-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The photographs are now displayed at art galleries across the country <!--which of the two?--> and a book was released on April 1, 2007, through Harry N. Abrams.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=132 |title=The Border Film Project / El proyecto fronterizo fotográfico |accessdate=2007-05-13 |author=Krane, Susan |date=2007 |work=Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209035231/http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=132 |archivedate=2007-02-09 }}</ref>

==References== 
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==Related reading==
* Susan Harbage Page and Inés Valdez, [https://southernspaces.org/2011/residues-border-control "Residues of Border Control"], ''Southern Spaces'', 17 April 2011.

==External links==
* [https://www.borderfilmproject.com/ Official site]

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Category:Mexico–United States border

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