Immaterial Sites of Exception (2024) [Excerpt]

This video presents footage from two distant places—Beirut, Lebanon, and the US/Mexico border in Arizona—intertwined within the same infrastructure of surveillance.

Unveiling the ongoing transformation of borders; barbed wire and checkpoints give way to an invisible architecture, operating perpetually, and targeting those deemed undesirable. Corporations mine our digital traces for profit and turn them against us as tools of control. Machines cast migrant bodies as suspects, flagging them with systems that reduce them to targets and diminish their existence.