Filmmaker Statement

I'm sure every native of El Paso, Texas has a complicated love-hate relationship with this city. I'm no different. It's a city in eternal transition. The border between one country to another. One state to another. Spanglish, a literal in-between collage of English & Spanish, being a prolific form of communication. Our sunsets being the embodiment of the natural brevity, but priceless beauty of transition. One could equate this mindset to ‘stopping to smell the roses.’ Which feels like a universal concept. No one wants a wasted life. And life is nothing but one grand transition to begin with. Our main characters are all aimless settlers within El Paso; uninterested in grand ambitions, with the only certainty being they don't want to be where they are now. All of this is accentuated by the doomsday element. Which forces these characters to look at what their life is, & ultimately will be.