About Project
Border-Ball chronicles Joel Tauber’s 40-day pilgrimage along the U.S. – Mexico border. He walks, repeatedly, from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, along the Border Wall, to the Otay Mesa Detention Center—and back. People share their thoughts and stories, and Tauber wonders how we can be so cruel to so many immigrants and refugees. They play catch. They hug. Sometimes they even laugh, despite it all. And Tauber continues walking, praying that things will change.
Director Biography
Activist. Artist. Filmmaker. Wake Forest University Associate Professor. Joel Tauber sparks discourse and facilitates change via direct actions and interventions, films, video installations, photographs, public art, podcasts, and written stories. Projects include: Border-Ball, BELT: A 2-Man Memoir, UNDERWATER: An Operatic Disco, The Sharing Project, Pumping, Sick-Amour, Searching for The Impossible: The Flying Project
Project Credits
Joel Tauber – Director
Sick-Amour, The Sharing Project, Pumping, UNDERWATER: An Operatic Disco, Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project, Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual
Joel Tauber – Writer
Joel Tauber – Producer
Joel Tauber – Key Cast
Humberto Velázquez Villalvazo – Key Cast
Estella Vargas – Key Cast
Uriel Vicona Guzman – Key Cast
Maggie Gonzalez – Key Cast
Alam Martinez – Key Cast
Joel Tauber – Cinematography
Max Slomoff – Cinematography
Sinjun Balabanoff – Cinematography
Dino Herrmann – Music and Sound Design
Wake Forest University – Funding
