' SLEEP DEALER ' : FILM SNIPPET

NETWORKED BODIES : '' Sleep Dealer '' : [ Director : Alex Rivera, 2008 ].

Set in a near-future Mexico, Sleep Dealer follows Memo [ Luis Fernando Pena], a young Hacker who flees to Tijuana after a military drone attack destroys his home.

There, he becomes a cybracero [ cyber-bracero manual worker ], connecting his body to a digital network through implanted nodes that allow him to perform physical labour remotely for the US.

Developed from Rivera ] satirical 1997 short. Why Cybraceros?, which parodies 1950s US recruitment films for migrant workers.

Sleep Dealer critiques governments and corporations that profit from migrant labour while treating workers rights and bodies as disposable.

In this dystopian future, they gain the labour without bearing the burden of their legal and survival needs.

!WOW! thanks Amy C. Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.