Alex Rivera is a New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker. His work addresses concerns of immigration in the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor.

PAPAPAPÁ (1995, 26 minutes, video)
Looking at the potato, which was first cultivated in Peru as an Inca food staple, PAPAPAPÁ paints a picture of a vegetable that has traveled and been transformed, and examines how bodies (people and vegetable) are remade within the new societies they encounter.

WHY CYBRACEROS? (1997, 5 minutes, video)
The narrator advocates a futuristic Bracero (temporary Mexican farmhand) Program in which only the labor is imported to the United States. The workers themselves are left at home in Mexico, as they Tele-commute to American farms over the high-speed Internet.

BORDERS (TRILOGY) (2002, 10 minutes, video)
Three small stories illuminate a much larger one: the consequences of a world order in which products freely cross borders that people may not. It is a succinct and powerful meditation on the contradictions of U.S. border policy.

THE SIXTH SECTION (2003, 26 minutes, video)
A groundbreaking documentary that follows the trans-national organizing of a community of Mexican immigrants who live and work in upstate New York.