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ALEX RIVERA: SCREENING & LECTURE
Thursday, April 19, 2012

2:00 pm
Screening: SLEEP DEALER, by Alex Rivera

5:00 pm
Lecture by director Alex Rivera: "Engineering the Border, Imagining America"
Reception to follow

Rivera is the 2012 Robert and Maurine Rothschild Lecturer in the History of Science

Still from Sleep Dealer (2008) directed by Alex Rivera

Rivera is a filmmaker and media artist. His work, which tells transnational stories through a highly stylized cinematic language, has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, the Guggenheim Museum, PBS, Telluride, and other international venues. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 where it won multiple awards. Rivera is a Sundance Fellow, USA Artist Fellow, Creative Capital Grantee and a Rockefeller Fellow.  

SLEEP DEALER
2008, 90 min.
In the near future a soldier, a worker, and a writer struggle to find hope in a bizarre world marked by militarized borders, rampant drone warfare, and a global digital network that ties bodies and minds together.

A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes: “Exuberantly entertaining -- a dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure!”