Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning.
Direction
Herbert's patient observation lets contradictions speak louder than narration.
Editing
Jarring juxtapositions of antebellum cosplay and lived Black experience.
Director
Suzannah Herbert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Natchez's annual Spring Pilgrimage began in 1932 as a direct response to economic depression and Lost Cause mythology, making the 'tradition' younger than many assume.
Herbert reportedly spent three years embedded in the community, a rare long-form commitment that explains the access to unguarded moments from both Black and white residents.
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