Filmed at the Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe, infamous for its Mafia and Kennedy family connections, ‘State Line’ embodies the violence of neo-liberal individualism, where mobile subjectivities articulate the force and the site of law. The work creates an abstract biography of the Cal Neva lodge and its past constructing law as an aesthetics of formalised architectural violence where the language of democratic freedom shares the subversive violence of mafia power to perform the work of government.