Natchez

Natchez

In this absorbing, award-winning documentary, filmmaker Suzannah Herbert explores the contradictions of small-town Natchez, Mississippi through the lens of its unique - and often stranger-than-fiction - cottage industry of antebellum tourism. Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory - a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, the film takes audiences on a journey through a tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we're left to wonder if it's actually past at all.