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Depleted Artery
2025

4K single-channel video,  22 min,
Depleted Artery examines how the binational waters of the Colorado River represent an artery to navigate the ambivalence of modern/colonial fallacious narratives of developmentalism anchored to the Mexico-US border. This film juxtaposes imagery of major dams modulating the river’s flow in the US—such as the Hoover Dam, Glen Canyon Dam, and Davis Dam—with narrations of people from San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, MX. This Mexican border town once saw the untamed waters of the Colorado River flow, which have now been totally depleted to produce electricity for three major cities in the southwest of the US.