Bisbee '17
It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican boundary. The community's dense area prepares to commemorate the 100th wedding anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hour: the notorious Bisbee Deportation of 1917, throughout which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their residences, eliminated to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this fierce, misinterpreted past by presenting remarkable leisures of the rising strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective variations of the story and "guided," in a feeling, by locals with conflicting views of the occasion. Deeply individual segments torn from family history build towards a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the precise day of its 100th anniversary.
Released: 2018-09-05