Saugatuck Center For The Arts Presents "Requiem For Detroit"

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Saugatuck Center For The Arts

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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$5 – SCA + HAAC members, students / $7 non-members


Filled with images of Detroit's heyday projected against now-crumbling buildings, Julien Temple's new BBC documentary "Requiem for Detroit?" tracks the Motor City's past, present and future. Temple characterizes its decline as "a slow-motion Katrina that has had many more victims."

Built by the car for the car, with its groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping centers, Detroit was the embodiment of the American dream. But its intense race riots brought the army into the city and with violent union struggles against the fierce resistance of Henry Ford and the Big Three, Detroit was also the scene of American nightmares.

Temple now sees Detroit as a truly dystopic post-industrial city, in which 40 percent of the land in the City center is returning to prairie. Greenery grows up through abandoned office blocks, houses and collapsing car plants, and swallows up street lights.

There is no more rush hour on what were the first freeways in America. Crime, vandalism, arson and dog fighting are the main activities in once the largest building in North America. But it's also a source of hope.

Streets are being turned to art. Farming is coming back to the centre of the city. Young people are flocking to help. The burgeoning urban agricultural movement is the fastest growing movement in the US. Detroit may lead the way again but in a very different direction.

This is part of SC4A's Real To Reel film series.


Sponsored by media partner WGVU.

sc4a.org


Location Details

Saugatuck Center For The Arts
400 Culver St
Saugatuck MI 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-2399