Bisbee '17
It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining community just miles from the Mexican boundary. The community's dense community prepares to memorialize the 100th anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hour: the notorious Bisbee Expulsion of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were strongly taken from their homes, eradicated to the middle of the desert, as well as left to die. Townspeople challenge this fierce, misconstrued past by staging dramatic recreations of the rising strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and also "directed," in a feeling, by homeowners with contradictory sights of the occasion. Deeply personal sectors torn from family history develop towards an enormous restaging of the deportation itself on the precise day of its 100th wedding anniversary.
Released: 2018-09-05