“Walleyball”
I’ve been a huge fan of McSweeney’s Books for years, and they promote these Wholphin DVD’s on their site. These are collections of movie shorts from around the world, some of them extremely odd (or awful), and some extremely amazing. I picked up a few, and one of the short films blew my mind. It’s called “Walleyball”, and it shows US folks playing volleyball over the border fence with Mexican folks. I remember this fence very well- when living in Tijuana, we would frequently head to this beach. Young boys would bring coolers of Cerveza Sol and Dos Equis around and sell them for a buck or two (though no glass containers were allowed on the US side.) Try to ignore the annoying narrator, and enjoy the ironic beauty of a simple volleyball game among unlikely friends. (Music by Aesop Rock.)