The Video Essay: Videographic Writing
Featured Scholarship, MEmorial: Invented Borders.
“For this animated documentary short (her MFA thesis film), Mayra Flores recruited her own mother to talk about her immigration story. As we hear Flores’ mom’ testimonial – which touches on both what she left behind back in Mexico and what she found in the United States with her husband and children – the images on screen are simple. Mirroring sketch-like pencil drawings on a page, the animation feels lovingly homemade, merely suggesting gestures and figures (a flag, a border, a welcome mat, a laughing child) that complement the at-times teary voice-over that dominates this short about what it means to belong in more than one country. –Manuel Betancourt”
