Bisbee '17

Bisbee '17
dir. Robert Greene/United States/2018/112 min.
place
date
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Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe, sala Lalka
2019-05-10
18:30
Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe, sala Lalka
2019-05-18
13:45

“Bisbee ’17” is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town’s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation.

The film documents locals as they play characters and stage dramatic scenes from the controversial story, culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and offer conflicting views of the event, underscoring the difficulty of collective memory, while confronting the current political predicaments of immigration, unionization, environmental damage and corporate corruption with direct, haunting messages about solidarity and struggle.

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  • projection time:
    112 min.
  • country/year:
    United States /2018
  • director:
    Robert Greene
  • pictures:
    Jarred Alterman
  • production:
    Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott / Impact Partners Film
  • awards :
    2019 – CPX:DOC Copenhagen, 2018 – Sundance FF, 2018 – Athen IFF: Special Mention

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