It'll be a night of rare footage of Detroit.
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Now I've been given the chance to do the show I've always wanted to do:
Lost Landscapes of Detroit. It's happening February 10 at Museum of
Contemporary Art in Detroit.
This isn't going to be a narrative of urban decline or the
"ruins porn" that's become fashionable. Rather, it's a collection of
amazing and almost-all-lost footage that celebrates a vibrant, busy and
productive Detroit from 1917 through the 1970s. The idea is to bring
these images back to Detroiters for their contemplation and use as they
rebuild their city for the future.
In that spirit, at the screening I'm going to give out copies
of the show so people in Detroit can reshow and remix it, and it'll be
online at the Internet Archive after the screening.
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