Danish students make film highlighting Detroit’s underground vibes and “fantastic potential”

Three Danish students journeyed to our fair city last summer to make a documentary on Detroit’s urban planning ideas and what they could do for our future. Don’t get turned off by the academic mission — the ambient soundtrack, glimpses inside hair salons and liquor stores and Public Pool, meditations on urban pheasants and the Michigan Central station, all add up to one arresting and thought-provoking short film from our friends at Roskilde University.

Copenhagenize.com writes:

They’ll highlight a city that was home to the Big Three — Ford, Chrysler
and GM and that gave the world Motown and Techno. A city that lost half
of its population in just 50 years and where this year alone 3000
houses will be torn down.

A city that has the fantastic potential to be the first large city in
the world to produce all of its foodstuffs within the city limits. A
city that is fighting economic meltdown and brutal budget cuts. A city
with a blossoming underground and art scene.

Views of Detroit was presented Feb 3 in Copenhagen, and a segment that featured a slow, hypnotic ride on the People Mover (with music by Hamtramck-based sound artist Jennifer Paull) screened last week at Public Pool.