Contrabando

2011 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

18:36 mins

Julio Cesar Morales

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Contrabando is a work that references the larger sociological phenomenon in which immigrant economic strategies come to infiltrate urban landscapes. It is a study of the realities and consequences of exploited labor that simultaneously aims to record the living history of labor.

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Born in Tijuana, Mexico, San Francisco-based Julio Cesar Morales explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies, and identity strategies.

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Colors:

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• exploitation.n.02
• labor.n.01
• immigration.n.01
• subsistence.n.02
• economy.n.01
• urbanization.n.01
• chicano art
• collective history
• contemporary conceptualism
• contemporary graphic realism
• crime
• mexican
• monochrome