In Episode 4 of Lowlines we follow the threads to the La Gitana bar in Arivaca, the brittle dirt of a huntress’s land, discover an abandoned halfway house, a coven of new wave desert women in a secret bar at the back of a store – and then gravitate further down to the border to get up close with The Wall.
I’m looking for a desert woman, someone who is totally in tune with this powerful landscape and who might help me tune into its great vastness a little bit more. I hear in a Tucson cafe that Arivaca is ground zero for such women. I head down there – almost all the way to the border – and start asking around town for a desert woman. Who I end up spending time with is a long way from what I had imagined but who fills me with all kinds of ideas about what it is to belong to a place, to know it – and for it to know you.
Credits
Petra Barran, Lina Prestwood (Scenery Studios), Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts)