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What are the borders in your life? Borders Snapshots are short meditations, reflections, and ideas about borders. A border can be a boundary between countries, or a point in your life: leaving home, growing older, a new job, a new town, any point in your life where you cross from one thing to another.

What does a Snapshot look like? It can be a digital video, a poem, an essay, music or photography — anything which explores borders, real and imagined, visible and invisible.

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Alex Rivera's
Love on the Line

Explore a place where families from both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border meet, though separated by a wall on the border they cannot legally cross. (2:11 minutes)


Alex Rivera's
Visible Border

Take an x-ray look at technologies used to prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing borders illegally. (2:36 minutes)


Alex Rivera's
A Border in the Air

Immigrant communities are using a little-known phenomenon called subcarrier radio to carve out a niche in the airwaves that is all their own. (3:42 minutes)

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