Cynematik

Well, we headed off to Mexico today — to film in Colonia Dublan and Colonia Juarez — in Chihuahua, Mexico. We hadn’t even left the Phoenix metro area and we had to turn around and go back … the over-heating light on my car kept coming on, so we just didn’t feel safe taking it on the eight-hour trip. We had to turn around and get a different vehicle. That delay put us two hours behind and had us crossing the border at dusk. Then, a delay at the border had us crossing the winding road over the mountains between Sonora and Chihuahua in the dark. We ended up arriving after midnight. It was, to be certain, an inauspicious beginning for the trip. The Mexican countryside was beautiful … and remote.

While we were driving I was thinking about how long it had taken the colonists to make the journey from Snowflake, Arizona, to La Ascension. Our twelve hours were nothing compared to the month it took them in their horse-drawn wagons. Some of the journal entries we read were about losing a family member along the journey and having to bury them in these vast, vacant prairies. What an unbearable horror that would have been.

DUBLAN FIELDS, MEXICO ©2008, Jared Moschcau.
All rights reserved. High-dynamic range photograph.