Requiem for Detroit? was developed by director Julien Temple to chronicle the “first post-American city.”
When director Chad Friedrichs began work on a documentary about the notorious Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, he thought he was making a film about architecture and environmental determinism. But as he did more research, the focus on design “kind of melted away.” Archival footage and contemporary interviews with former residents displaced shots of buildings and commentary from experts.
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