Border stories working title from one side to another, 2000
For her INSITE97 project, Consigned to Border: The terror and possibility in the things not seen/Consignado a la frontera: el terror y la posibilidad en las cosas que no se han visto, Judith Barry designed a five-sided, T-shaped structure upon which a video and sound work with changing images of regional landscapes was projected. Located in an abandoned freestanding building owned by the Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños in downtown San Diego, the installation invited the viewer to consider the two border cities, San Diego and Tijuana, cities with similar geographies but dissimilar appearances. Each surface of the structure focused on a different aspect of each city, from coastlines to dense urban spaces.
Curators: Susan Buck-Morss, Ivo Mesquita, Osvaldo Sánchez, and Sally Yard
Venue: Former First National Bank Building, San Diego
Crew
Judith Barry - artist/director
Spencer Strath - director of photography
Stacy Sievek - lighting/chief electrical
Ramon Ciokon - grip
Wyatt Denny - sound
Joseph Walsh - producer/assistant director
José Luis Martín - production coordinator Tijuana
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite – journalist/story contributor
Michael Perry - assistant director/second unit camera
Neil Kendricks - assistant director/storyboard artist/second unit camera
Dave Evans - technical director
Valerie Fowler - make-up/hair
Holly Rice - production secretary
Kelly Ameli - production assistant
Jamie Boone - production assistant
Chris Brown - production assistant
Iván Díaz – production assistant
Genie Hanenkrat - production assistant
Grace Kim - production assistant
Pat Kim - production assistant
Geneviéve Mantle - production assistant
Joanne Martella - production assistant
Pat Tworoger - production assistant
Blanca Quiriarte – production assistant
Actors
Gabriella Arjona
Richard Bagdazian
Phil Beaumont
Terrence Burk
Jeremy Caberness
Roland Chapin
Paul Clark
Jennifer Cole
Amanda Comito
Olivia Ramos Cruz
Daniela Delgado Cuenca
John Dunn
Elizabeth Marie Esquibel
Rita Furlong
Claudia García
William Jones
Camille Kling
Cherry Lorenzana
Dave Norvell
Lindi Prejean
Ty Shardel Pritchard
Larry Purcell
Anne Sterling
Mark Strohman
Gabriel Sullivan
Jessica Valentino
Locations
California State Parks
Centro Urbano 70-76
Cervecería Tijuana
Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños
Courtyard by Marriott, downtown San Diego
Marlo and A.J. Croce
Corrina Dilorenzo
Escuela Ema Anchondo de Bustamante
Ricardo Castro – Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild
Octavio Hernández
Wendell Kling
Marvin Krichman
Jim Martin – Martin Ranch
La Piñata Mexican Restaurant
Paul, Ceal and Chris Mussy
Blanca and Manuel Pasero
Breck Schoch
Amanda Valentino
Story collecting
Sam Hinton
José Manuel Valenzuela Arce
Post-production
Steven Mayer – vice president of production, Image Group Post/Blinkfx
Tommy Shay - executive producer, Blinkfx
Helen Troy – executive producer, Blinkfx
Alex Lebedev - effects artist, Blinkfx
Mark Higgins – editor, Image Group Post
Richard King - sound design and mix
Dave Jones - custom synchronizer
Marite Iglesias – assistant producer, Image Group Post
Richard Dougherty – assistant editor, Image Group Post
Video excerpts/projects
Gustavo Artigas - The Rules of the Game/Las Reglas del Juego
Dan Aubrey - Victim of Geography
Jordan Crandall - Heatseeking
Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg - MAMA
Mark Dion - Blind/Hide
Paul Espinoza - The New Tijuana, The Border
Jesse Lerner/Rúben Ortiz Torres - Frontierland/Fronterilandia
Special thanks
Kathy McCurdy – San Diego Film Commission
Gary Withem – Eastlake High School