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ENTEREXIT: Animated Immigrant Stories presents a series of short digital animations about immigrants living in America. Mongolian American artist Eriko Tsogo is interviewing immigrant leaders from across the US to animate their inspirational immigrant stories into short experimental animations encased in personalized immersive three dimensional alter sculptures utilizing found objects, recycled items, and heritage-based arts.

The project is designed to create boundary blurring experience about the mixed migration stories of immigrants and refugees from our community who have decided to embrace America as home and the migrants who choose to leave. The animations show the contrasting realities of the American immigration system and the degradations perpetrated by its border regimes while also showing the tenacity of people who live borderless, imagining a life beyond their reality.

What does home mean to us? Why do we long to belong to someplace? How does belonging to a place, whether physical or imagined, create our sense of identity? what motivates immigrants to stay or leave? What does the American Dream mean? How are immigrants embraced and othered at the same time? How does one a home without a physical place or environment?

ENTEREXIT animations seek to help humanize conversations, perspectives, prejudice and hate about immigrants through visual storytelling, empathy and understanding. The project is a call to action and coexistence for an ideal world in which individuals can unite in celebration of our commonality and humanity, thereby invoking connectivity in the sameness that we all share beyond our differences.

“ENTEREXIT: Animated Immigrant Stories” project is part of BRIClab Video Art Residency due to premiere at BRIC Arts Media in September 2025.

Luis Antezana Alba was born in Bolivia, raised in Los Angeles, adopted by Colorado. He is an indigenous-descendant, undocumented entrepreneur, global speaker for education equity and an educator at heart. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Honors College at the California State University. Luis is the founder and CEO of Juntos Community, a non-profit organization helping undocumented families access upward mobility. He is also a founding member of the New Americans Council Advisory Committee with the state of Colorado. Luis was awarded the Teach for America 2018 Colorado Springs Alumnus of the Year award and received the 2022 Immigrant Liberty Award (RMIAN).

For Luis’ animation I utilized sand animation.

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