23 Minutes of Chihuahuan Desert

23 Minutes of Chihuahuan Desert (One-minute sample)
Score: Andrew Weathers
2026, Super 8 (Digitized), 23 minutes

Comprised of 23 static shots surveying the desert surrounding the El Paso/Juarez border, 23 Minutes of Chihuahuan Desert holds meditative space for the discords and harmonies between place and perception. This historically contested area is politically charged, mythologized, unsustainably utilized, and is both the passageway and home of many cultures. Through its structural form, the film allows the viewer to reflect on the region and our socio-political perception of it by distilling it to its essential ecological form.