Border Brujo (1990)

Border Brujo is a rituallinguistic journey across the USMexico border written and performed by artist Guillermo GómezPeña In the guise of a crosscultural shaman Gómez Peña shifts into 15 different personas each speaking a different language The personas are symbolic of the borders between North and South Anglo and Latino myth and reality legality and illegality art and life Border Brujo assaults and exorcises the demons of dominant cultures He articulates fear desire trauma sublimation anger and misplacement embodying ruptured and defiant communities with multilingual dexterity and humor