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Gloria Anzaldúa, the renowned scholar, poet, auto historian, and the first academic to broach the topic of border theory, uses the Nahuatl word Nepantla to talk about the liminal space of binaries (geographic, cultural, gender, language, etc.) or in betweenness. This space of transition or transgression offers the possibility of new-hybridizations and meaningful connections similarly to the way in which an animation is formed by creating continuity between frames (also called in-betweens). The idea of building a film about this region constructed almost entirely out of transitions was a strategy from the start.