MacArthur Fellow Alex Rivera on Why He Makes Films About Deportation

[0:00]project? What is it you hope people learn? What is it you want to share with the world? I've been making films about immigration and being around people struggling around the immigration system, feeling its pain, seeing its violence, but not fully having a language for anything else, you know? And to me, I feel like that's where I feel like there's a collective hunger to make a type of sense that we don't have. And the sense is, we see people getting tackled in the street by these masked agents today. But two years ago, they were getting grabbed methodically in their homes or at their workplaces by agents without masks. The children who are missing their parents, who were deported by Trump, are suffering the same as the children who missed their parents, who were deported under Biden or under Obama. I don't want to return to two years ago. I want to imagine and push towards a world without any of this.