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Sleep Dealer Series: New Directors/New Films [March 26 - April 6, 2008] Director: Alex Rivera, Release: 2008, Runtime: 90 Sometime in the not too distant future, big corporations control the water supply and international borders are truly airtight. In a Mexican village, Memo, a young man who loves to tinker with technology, hacks into the wrong system and finds himself in big trouble. When he runs off to a border town, he finds a job and a girl—but no guarantee of a happy ending. In his debut feature, director Alex Rivera creates a chilling scenario that is not so far-fetched. With the look and energy of a futuristic computer game, the film treats us to a world where migrant workers’ nervous systems are plugged into a global network, allowing them to do menial jobs in the U.S. for the same low wages but without setting foot north of the border. A thriller of a ride that is a chilling indictment of global capitalism and a look at the lost promises of the World Wide Web. US/Mexico Fri Mar 28: 9:00pm (WRT) Sat Mar 29: 5:30pm (MoMA) New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker Alex Rivera studied cinema and political science at Hampshire College. He developed Sleep Dealer, his first feature, at the 2000 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and the 2001 Directors Lab.

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