Recipient of the Puffin Foundation 2021 Prize
TEAM
- Director: Jessica Fertonani Cooke
- Photography Director: Julius Schlosberg
- Assistant Camera: Aaron Bugaj
- Costume Directors and Producers:
Arturo Herrera & Jessica Fertonani Cooke
- Day of Production: Eva Kihl and Justice
- Water Walkers (perfromers): Neomi Martins,
Tamara Jimenez, Amaya Jimenez, Arturo Herrera,
Dora Rodriguez, Astral Catman, Kate Becker,
Victor Velazquez and Jessica Fertonani Cooke.
PARTNERS
Salvavisión, Kate’s Magik,and
Boboquivari Sacred Defence Project.
WATER WALK, an ode to the immigrant body
2023
Video Procession
Video duration: 36 minutes
Video duration: 36 minutes
Water Walk, an ode to the immigrant body depicts 9 residents of the Arizona borderlands walking in the dried-out Santa Cruz riverbed, conceptually intertwining an ecological decline to a political one. Each person carries differences in age, race, gender, dreams, personal mythologies, and immigration stories, who all make up the historic demographic inhabiting the Sonoran Desert. The presence of religious artifacts and the search for a miracle guides the path of the immigrants that border cross, and it is in that spirit that the procession gathers, in an ode to the immigrants who risk their lives crossing the US/Mexico border today.
- Introduction to the Project as a whole and Forum statement by Jessica Fertonani Cooke
- Tohono O’Odaham land politics and impacts of new immigrations laws by Denis and Ernie from the Baboquivari sacred defence project
- Immigration rescue policies and personal border-crossing experience by Dora Rodriguez of the Salva Vision immigrant rescue program.
- Community immigration stories crossing over to Arizona USA by all present.
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