Bisbee '17 - Filmmaker Robert Greene in-person!
Monday, February 10, 2025 7pm to 10pm
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Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, Bisbee '17, directed by Robert Greene, follows several members of a 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. Bisbee '17 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.
Filmmaker Robert Greene will join for a post-screening conversation with Professor Austin Bunn, Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Director of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
Cosponsored by the Rural Humanities Program at Cornell. Part of our "Doc Spots" series. Courtesy of Grasshopper Films.
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