On the surface, it sees Singaporean director Sandi Tan revisit a film, also called Shirkers, which she and her friends made as young students in the early 1990s, with the help of a mysterious older man named Georges Cardona, who later disappeared with all their footage. Shirkers is possibly the best film I saw in 2018. Welcome To Leith charts the increasingly fraught confrontations between Cobb and his cronies – who rarely left their houses without packing multiple firearms – and the locals, who turned out to be tougher to intimidate than Cobb anticipated. Needless to say, things got tense and by the end of the experiment certain buildings in Leith were reduced to charred ruins. That’s exactly what happened in Leith, North Dakota, in 2012, when a white supremacist named Craig Cobb tried to build an artificial majority in the tiny town, whose population is somewhere between 15 and 20 people. But the second is to simply find enough people who think the same way as you and buy up as much property as you can in a town small enough that you can outvote the other residents, moving there en masse to take over the legislature in the process. How do you set up a neo-Nazi state? According to Welcome To Leith, there are two options: the first is through the traditional method of election through populist gaslighting, attacks on truth and the media and stoking racial divisions.
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