Screening from Series Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema – Encore Presentations
Sleep Dealer in 35mm
In person: Alex Rivera
In Sleep Dealer, director Alex Rivera imagines a future in which workers and their labor are separated by technology. His film follows a Mexican “node” factory worker named Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña) in a militarized Tijuana. Using headwear that muzzles his mouth and wires connected to ports in his arms, Memo controls robots across the US border in a dystopian vision of migrant labor. Rivera and production designer Miguel Ángel Álvarez created props crafted with store-bought materials to represent high-tech devices. The film’s future world maintains a realistic lo-fi aesthetic, suggesting this dystopian future is imaginable from the present.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2008 | 88 min | Mexico/USA | Color | Spanish, English | Rated PG-13 | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Alex Rivera.
WRITTEN BY: Alex Rivera, David Riker.
WITH: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina.
Collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
In person: Alex Rivera
In person: Alex Rivera
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