The Marker - Documentary Short

Over 3000 migrants have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert. The only marker for where their bodies were found: a dot on a digital map. Artist Alvaro Enciso is on a mission to mark the places these people died, to find a way to honour his "neighbours" and create a visual remembrance of their struggle. For 9 years he has been placing home made crosses in the desert, leaving a signpost that a human being lost their life in this place. He's placed more than 900 markers and yet it's a task he will not complete in his lifetime.

The Marker played many online film festivals during the pandemic and won best documentary short at the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival before being acquired by PBS for its all arts platform.