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The US-Mexico border fence, a major topic in the 2016 US presidential race, is a sprawling structure winding across some 2,000 miles between San Diego in California and Brownsville in Texas. It is also roughly two-thirds incomplete. Best of Luck with the Wall, an imaginative, dizzying short documentary that uses 200,000 satellite images downloaded from Google Maps, makes clear the sheer magnitude of the US-Mexico border, and the mindbogglingly massive challenges any full border fence would face in separating the two countries. The documentary is a collaboration between The Intercept, Field of Vision and the US internet artist Josh Begley.
Director: Josh Begley
Producer: Sierra Pettengill
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Human rights and justice
‘I know that change is possible’ – a Deaf prison chaplain’s gospel of hope
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Technology and the self
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Art
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Film and visual culture
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Language and linguistics
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Biography and memoir
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Sex and sexuality
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Religion
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Ecology and environmental sciences
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