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Fernando Serrano in Bisbee '17 (Dir: Robert Greene)

Bisbee, Arizona is a haunted city. Once a prosperous copper mining region, the community of 6,000 a few miles from the Mexico border has lived for generations with the memory of one of the greatest humanitarian abuses in U.S. history occurring on its soil.

Bisbee ‘17, a remarkable documentary by Robert Greene screening this week at SPACE, tells the ghost story coursing through the city’s history. Taking place a hundred years ago, Greene brings the story much closer at hand, blurring the boundaries of documentary film with practices of historical re-enactment, psychodrama, cosplay, and group therapy.