Imaging Detroit Film Schedule

Please note time changes: festival now runs from 6pm – 4am on Friday, and 9am – 1am on Saturday.

Update from my summer fellowship. So far, research by the Metropolitan Observatory for Digital Culture and Representation (MODCaR) has unearthed over 150 documentaries on Detroit, most of them produced during the last few years – with more to come. In addition, MODCaR has also generated more material through its call for submissions. The Imaging Detroit festival is showing about 50 examples of those, across all angles. (Hmh, anybody up for putting on a follow-up festival on Detroit representations in film fiction?). My own contribution, Sounds Like Detroit, was produced as part of a MODCaR fellowship and compares Detroit with different parts of the UK. I will upload it here soon both as an audio podcast and video.
During the event, discussions with festival goers will take place, facilitated by invited DJs (discourse jockeys) from Detroit and beyond. There will also be a library with books on Detroit, an interactive art gallery, a Twitter station, music and food.

We also have arranged a live webstream for the festival, which will start as soon as the countdown goes to zero.

The schedule currently looks as follows:

FRIDAY, September 21

06:00 PM Bilal’s Stand
Sultan Sharrief, 2010 (85min)
07:25 PM Lean, Mean & Green
Carrie LeZotte & John Gallagher, 2012 (12min)
07:37 PM King Band Interviews
Iain Maitland, 2012 (7min)
07:44 PM Street Fighting Man
Andrew James, 2013 (16min trailer + excerpt)
08:00 PM I Have Always Been A Dreamer
Sabine Gruffat, 2012 (78min)
09:18 PM Theatre Bizarre: Documentary
Gary Bredow & Per Franchell, 2012 (5min trailer)
09:23 PM Motor City Pride
4exit4 production, 2011 (8min)
09:31 PM Detroit: Making It Better for You
Kyong Park, 2000 (10min)
09:41 PM People Mover
4exit4 production, 2011 (18min)
10:00 PM High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music
Gary Bredow, 2006 (64min)
11:04 PM Half(way) or 6 mile
Ellen Donnelly, 2009 (3min)
11:07 PM Redefining Dreamland
Brad Osantoski, 2011(74mins)

SATURDAY, September 22

12:21 AM Detroit: Murder City
Al Profit, 2008 (83min)
01:44 AM The Detroit Journal: True Stories about Real People
Episode 01: William Foster is a Good Man
The Detroit Journal, 2012 (16min)
02:00 AM Albert Kahn Architect Of Modern Times
Dieter Marcello, 1994 (85min)
03:25 AM Art From the Ashes: Detroit’s Heidelberg Project
Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer, 2010 (15min)
03:40 AM Slim’s Bike
Benjamin Miguel Hernandez and Chris Turner, 2004 (23min)
04:03 AM

SATURDAY, September 22 (continued…)

09:00 AM The Kresge Foundation: 37 Artist Profiles in Detroit
Stephen McGee, 2012 (26min)
09:26 AM Detroit Bike City
Alex Gallegos, 2011(14min)
09:40 AM Détroit Ville Sauvage
Florent Tillon, 2010 (80mins)
11:00 AM A City to Yourself
Nicole MacDonald, 2008 (24min)
11:24 AM Total Detroit
Niegel Smith (6min)
11:31 AM 9 Businesses
4exit4 production, 2012 (7min)
11:38 AM Melbourne’s Detroit
Narda Shanley & Sky Seely, 2012 (9min)
11:47 AM Sounds Like Detroit
Angela Last, 2012 (7min)
11:54 AM Fallow City
Berenika Boberska (5min)
12:00 PM Brewster Douglass You’re my Brother
Oren Goldenberg, 2012 (28min)
12:28 PM Detroit: What Will It Take?
Allegra Pitera, 2012 (2min)
12:30 PM The VooDooMan of Heidelberg Street
Harvey Ovshinsky, 1990 (27min)
01:00 PM Conversation with Harvey Ovshinsky
01:20 PM Lemonade: Detroit
Erik Proulx, 2012 (18min)
01:38 PM Robocop Was Filmed Mostly in Dallas
David Gazdowicz, 2003 (5min)
01:43 PM The Packard Dogs – A Study of Contrasts
Tom McPhee (12min)
01:55 PM Coda Motor City
Kelly Parker, 2004 (16min)
02:11 PM Detroit Ruin of a City
Michael Chanan & George Steinmetz, 2005 (92min)
03:43 PM I Am From Detroit
Lester Spence & Kofi Boone, 2012 (9min)
03:52 PM We Are Not Ghosts
Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 2012 (53mins)
04:45 PM Regional Roots
Carrie LeZotte, 2009 (27min)
05:12 PM Nine Days Without Water
Stephen McGee, 2012 (13min)
05:25 PM Vacancy
Brandon Walley, 2006 (6min)
05:31 PM Everyone I Know
Brandon Walley, 2012 (5min trailer)
05:36 PM pulping detroit: on the road 2012
J.P. Maruszczak, 2012 (5min)
05:40 PM Grown in Detroit
Mascha & Manfred Poppenk 2009 (60min)
06:40 PM Creative Catalyst: Detroit and the Abandoned Packard Plant
Sharad Kant Patel, 2012 (9min)
06:49 PM Invisible City
Jack Cronin, 2006 (11min)
07:00 PM Real Scenes: Detroit
Patrick Nation & Daniel Higginson, 2011(19min)
07:19 PM Hill
Ben Wu & David Usui, 2012 (8min)
07:27 PM Détroit: Un Rêve En Ruine
Alexandre Touchette, 2010 (52mins)
08:20 PM Detroit in Overdrive (episodes 1&2)
Michael Selditch, 2011 (90min)
09:50 PM I Pity the Fool
Brent Coughenour, 2007 (90min)
11:20 PM Deforce
Daniel Falconer, 2011 (86min)
12:56 AM

See you there!

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