Living on the Border
Author: Karl W. Hoffman
Date Published: 2009
" This is a multimedia production film including photography, video and narration. Being totally self-funded, it required me to study video and sound editing along the way. Most of the summer was spent editing and writing the script for my narration. As I uncovered the vast intricacies and experienced the emotion and brutality of the border debacle, waded in after the media had sensationalized segments for salable stories to root out the many unknown facts and hidden agendas of both the major and minor players, not to mention the endless hours on hose back, foot and 4x4, in the air and on raids with BP, as well as in the field with humanitarian groups, it occurred to me that this was culminating into a form of philosophical sculpture. It became a mirror for humanity, to show us just how, through a detailed account, we deal with major issues. No matter where in the world they occur, or in the time line of history one goes, the formula seems to be the same. "
Date Published: 2009
" This is a multimedia production film including photography, video and narration. Being totally self-funded, it required me to study video and sound editing along the way. Most of the summer was spent editing and writing the script for my narration. As I uncovered the vast intricacies and experienced the emotion and brutality of the border debacle, waded in after the media had sensationalized segments for salable stories to root out the many unknown facts and hidden agendas of both the major and minor players, not to mention the endless hours on hose back, foot and 4x4, in the air and on raids with BP, as well as in the field with humanitarian groups, it occurred to me that this was culminating into a form of philosophical sculpture. It became a mirror for humanity, to show us just how, through a detailed account, we deal with major issues. No matter where in the world they occur, or in the time line of history one goes, the formula seems to be the same. "
