Country: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 78'
¿requiem for detroit? Detroit was America’s fourth largest city. With its groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping centers, it was the embodiment of the American dream. Founded on the automotive industry, it was also the arena of clashes between the unions and the three big car manufacturers: Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Today, the abandoned houses and offices, the vacant factories, the empty streets, crime and vandalism have turned the city into the emblem of an economic system in crisis. But there is still hope. “On many levels Detroit seems to be an insoluble disaster with urgent warnings for the rest of the industrialised world. But we discovered an irrepressible positivity in the city. People turning the demolished neighbourhood blocks into urban farms and kick-starting what is now the fastest-growing movement across the US. Young people from all over the country are also flooding into Detroit – artists, musicians and social pioneers, all keen to make use of the abandoned urban spaces and create new ways of living together.”
Biography
film director
Julien Temple
Julien Temple (London, UK, 1953) studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. He debuted with the short Sex Pistols Number 1 (1977), followed by the punk culture documentary The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (1980). He directed several music videos, many feature films (including Absolute Beginners, 1986; and Earth Girls Are Easy, 1988), and music documentaries (such as The Filth and the Fury, 2000; and Glastonbury, 2006). He participated at the Torino Film Festival on multiple occasions, presenting the documentaries Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007), Oil City Confidential (2009), Requiem for Detroit? (2010), London - The Modern Babylon (2012), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015). In 2014 he received the Gran Premio Torino.
FILMOGRAFIA
Sex Pistols Number 1 (coregia/codirector John Tiberi, cm, doc., 1977), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (La grande truffa del rock’n’roll, 1980), Absolute Beginners (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy (Le ragazze della terra sono facili, 1988), Vigo (Vigo, passione per la vita, 1998), The Filth and the Fury (Sex Pistols - Oscenità e furore, doc., 2000), Glastonbury (doc., 2006), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Il futuro non è scritto - Joe Strummer, doc., 2007), Oil City Confidential (doc., 2009), Requiem for Detroit? (doc., 2010), London - The Modern Babylon (doc., 2012), Rio 50 Degrees (doc., 2014), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (doc., 2015), My Life Story (doc., 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Julien Temple
montaggio/film editing
Caroline Richards
interpreti/cast
Julien Temple (voce narrante/Narrator), Grace Lee Boggs, Lowell Boilleau, David Gartman, Tyree Guyton, Martha Reeves, John Sinclair, Paul Thal, Logan X
produttore/producer
George Hencken
produzione/production
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