Crosstown Arts Film Series: Natchez

Natchez (2025, dir. Suzannah Herbert)

Natchez is a quiet, observant documentary that peers beneath the surface of a Southern town steeped in history, ritual, and contradiction. Rather than offering easy conclusions, the film patiently assembles moments of everyday life, revealing how memory, myth, and identity coexist and clash in subtle, often unspoken ways.

Director Suzannah Herbert approaches her subject with restraint and empathy, allowing tensions to emerge organically through image and conversation. The result is a film that feels less like an argument and more like a lived experience that is reflective, unsettling, and deeply human. Natchez invites viewers to sit with ambiguity and consider how the past continues to shape the present, especially in places where history is never fully at rest.

Special Guest: Stick around after the credits! Director Suzannah Herbert will be in attendance for a live Q&A immediately following the film.