Life under ICE is like a horror movie. That’s the message of Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, whose new short documentary They’re Here chronicles how Immigration Customs Enforcement troops invaded and occupied Minneapolis last year, and the anonymous residents who resisted. Poitras co-directed They’re Here with Minneapolis-based journalist and documentarian Rachel Lauren Mueller. Using dashcam footage, ground-level filming and crowdsourced data visualizations, they reconstruct the resistance network and their tactics to track, document, and combat ICE’s masked agents. Stylistically, the film draws from horror and sci-fi cinema to…
