SESSION
PRODUCTIVE PASTORAL IN
11:30 AM OUT
12:45 PM (2008)
Forty square miles of vacant land a quantitative if disputable swath that points to the radical scope and scale of Detroit’s greatest resource: open space. To some, the surplus of available land should be made productive, while to others, the value of the land lies less in its fertility than in the freedoms it affords. The following films provide examples of what the uniqueness of Detroit’s landscape can provide.
Nicole MacDonald (2010) Florent Tillon (2010) Single Barrel Detroit production (2011) Marc MacInnis (2011) Brad Osantoski (2012) Power House production (2012) TheSeventhLetter production
Asenath Andrews Margi Dewar Dan Pitera Christophe Ponceau Nicole MacDonald Craig Wilkins Gary Wozniak
(2012) Tom McPhee (2010) Single Barrel Detroit production
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