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.

Grasshopper Film

Copper miners--Arizona, Industrial Workers of the World, Copper Miners, Strikes and lockouts

Greene, Robert (Director), Tirola, Douglas (Producer), Bedusa, Susan (Producer), Elliott, Bennett (Producer), Greene, Robert (Writer), Greene, Robert (Editor), Grasshopper Films (Producer)

01:52:51 (HH:MM:SS)

English

Adult/Continuing Education, Higher Education

Name	Grasshopper Films
Role	Publisher
Telephone	646.586.3060
Address	12 E. 32nd Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10016
Email	[email protected]

2018-01-01

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