Bill Brown's ramblings and rumblings on the road make up a unique body of cinema, personal and political, low-budget yet conceptual. To make The Other Side, he traveled the U.S.–Mexico border for two years, building on his previous explorations into the relationship between place and history. Testimony recounting attempts to cross from Mexico is interwoven with interviews with activists who work to make the dangerous crossing safer, as well as Brown's own musings. Political questions are raised and immigration policy is probed . . . but there is no escaping the physical fact of the fence. Brown's pondering camera reveals a landscape marked by traces of past crossings and long shadows cutting across the desert, beautiful yet imposing, a graveyard to many.