Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/05/2019
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Row House Cinema
Categories
This 2019 documentary film is the biography of a classic American town in the age of Donald Trump.
Moundsville is a small town of 9,000 people in rural West Virginia. At its peak in the 1960’s, the population was 50% greater. This is because the Fostoria Glass Company (specializing in hand-blown glassworks) was headquartered in Moundsville from 1891 to 1986 and West Virginia State Penitentiary operated in the town from 1867 to 1995.
Told through the voices of residents, it sidesteps cliches — like opioids, coal and Trump — and traces the town’s story from the Native American burial mound it’s named after through the rise and fall of industry.
By reckoning with deeper truths about the heartland and its economy, without nationalist nostalgia or liberal condescension, “Moundsville” plants seeds for better conversations about America’s future.
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United States