Detroit: Ruin of a City (tbc)
- Run time: tbc
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2005
- Starring: Tyree Guyton, Loic Wacquant, Dan Georgakas
- Directed by: Michael Chanan
Plot Synopsis
A documentary road movie about the Motor City and the social system known as Fordism and also a documentary about making documentaries. With the participation of Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, French sociologist Loic Wacquant, Detroit-born writer Dan Georgakas, Detroit photographer Lowell Boileau and a variety of local residents. The story is traced through a rich variety of archive footage – of the Ford plants, mass protests of the Depression years, Diego Rivera painting his famous mural ‘Detroit Industry’, the struggle for trade union rights, the riots of 1943 and 1967 – through which the film charts both the city’s history and the battle over its image that began when the Ford Motor Company started making its own films back in 1914.