Contribution short abstract:

Mael Vizcarra is an anthropologist and filmmaker from Tijuana, Mexico. Her most recent project investigates everyday narco specters and violence along the Mexico-U.S. border through media experiments centered on developing a digital phenomenology.

Contribution long abstract:

Mael Vizcarra is an anthropologist and filmmaker from Tijuana, Mexico. Her visual work explores the invisible aspects of ordinary life and the liminality of everyday experience. Vizcarra's most recent project investigates everyday narco specters and violence along the Mexico-U.S. border through media experiments centered on developing a digital phenomenology.