• Filmmaker documenting good things about Detroit has car broken into and all of his film equipment st
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[IMG]http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20140814&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=308140040&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Filmmaker-says-car-break-jeopardizes-Detroit-documentary[/IMG] [I]they say having your car broken into is a sign that you've been blessed by the ganglords in the area[/I] [quote=freep] When award-winning filmmaker Kristian Hill returned to his hometown three weeks ago to shoot a documentary highlighting Detroit’s electronic music scene, he hoped to place an international spotlight on talent within the city. But Hill said his documentary, which was screened at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, might now be in jeopardy after thieves broke into his car, while it was parked outside a bar in Eastern Market, and stole all of his camera equipment. Hill said the equipment, two Canon cameras, four lenses, and a Zoom audio recorder is worth nearly $8,500. He said the equipment’s replaceable, but he’s desperate to get his hands back on the audio, which he says is key in finishing the documentary. “I can’t even begin to say how important it is to get that back,” he said. “That audio, it’s my movie. I hope it turns up, just somehow. While I’ve been here, I interviewed close to 20 people, not only did I interview 20 people, but I videotaped and documented at least 20 performances. It’s a rather wide-ranging effect that not having the audio would have on my film. Everything I’ve done is on that device.” Hill has traveled around the world to work on his latest documentary, “Electric Roots: The Detroit Sound Project,” with his partner Jennifer Washington. He said the film aims to show the worldwide impact of Detroit’s electronic music scene and how it has even connected to South Africa, which has its own electronic music festival now. The film was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and also was screened at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. Hill said he was scheduled to fly back to Los Angeles on Monday, but had to delay his flight when he couldn’t make it to the airport because of the torrential rain and flooding in metro Detroit. After conducting an interview that evening, he said he went to a bar in the Eastern Market area around 12:30 a.m. and when he left around 1:30 a.m., Hill realized his car had been broken into right in front of the bar.[/quote] [URL="http://www.freep.com/article/20140814/NEWS01/308140040/Kristian-Hall-Detroit-film-equipment-stolen"]rest of story in source[/URL] but yeah I hope the guy somehow gets his stuff back, seems passionate about his work. But holy fuck the irony
that kind of sums up Detroit there.
Such a terrible place, this is what happens when every competent person moves away from a city.
Sounds like a good documentary too.
Detroit runs the same issues of other highly industrialized towns like Buffalo. When the industries dropped with the steel mill closures in the mid 60's and early 70's, most people lost work and either bailed or stayed and tasted the harsh medicine of segregation coming into play. It's the harsh reality that any highly industrialized town will meet, and it fucking kills me. I look at tens to hundreds of abandoned buildings in Buffalo, NY. All of which have active movements to have them restored because people such as myself have heard the stories from their fathers or mothers, or even their grandfathers and grandmothers. One of the few stories that comes to mind of pre-collapse Buffalo is the Central Terminal... [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Buffalo_Central_Terminal_1.jpg[/t][t]http://www.hipstercrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/buffalo-central-terminal-haunted.jpg[/t] [t]http://nextcity.org/images/daily/118429711_bcf8b73cb8_thumb.jpg[/t][t]https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7237/6869966874_5720f8e624_z.jpg[/t] This story is something my grandfather told me about Buffalo, NY in the 1940's and 1950's. About how my grandfather remembers running to the Central Terminal to see my great grandfather Thaddeus and Joseph return from the war in Europe. How he remembers how that building was lit up, and had thousands of American and Canadian flags to greet the returning GI's from both countries. He remembers buildings like that as well as how Buffalo was better back then because it was actually still a highly industrialized city with less segregation issues compared to today. When the Steel Mills and Food Factories crashed though, everything was lost in an instant, and Buffalo folk had to deal with the horrors of the crash. Cattaragus Creek has nuclear material burried under it, that is possibly contaminating ground water. This was from a closed nuclear power plant that was forced to close down with the hundreds to thousands of people leaving Buffalo after the crash. My most fond memory of that creek is going with my father and his friends, and catching a large female steelhead bare handed, and saving a fishing trip from going bust. Then you have the Buffalo Harbor... Still contaminated from the rapid-closures of the Steel Mills. My friends and I would be paid by some of the General Mills factories to go about clearing out rodents outside of the buildings in the shipping yards that would attempt to rip open the packaging. Many good nights were spent using air rifles against those giant rodents. And finally you have places like the central part of town. Once a very prosperous neighborhood, that now you cannot even so much as walk in during night time without getting mugged or shot. Like Detroit, the rapid reverse of industrialization has caused massive amounts of segregation, as well as crashing our fragile, yet beautiful towns. My family in Buffalo still lives with those problems on a daily basis, because our country has turned a blind eye to these cities because they are just "Screwed up shitholes" and it's pretty upsetting. One of these days Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, all of those once great cities will return to their former glory, and I await those days.
The irony hurts.
I wanna say Cleveland has gotten better but between what family members experienced working downtown and the long list of serial killers that have been captured as of late its not, the clinic was able to rebuild a huge swatch of the town because it was all abandoned and they needed the land, and the downtown area has been consolidating too but its still a nasty place and the casinos probably haven't made it any better, like Detroit they just feed on the poor because who's going to go to Cleveland to gamble? [editline]15th August 2014[/editline] The problem is that even if the industries came back the jobs wouldn't because the factories of today just are way more automated and steel mills dont require nearly as much manpower to run
That's what happens when you don't have cloud backups, unfortunately. Unless they were stolen right after filming, which would have really sucked.
uhhh why did he leave $8,500 worth of equipment in his car in the first place? You wouldn't do that anywhere...let alone detroit (and i love this city)!
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45691594]Such a terrible place, this is what happens when every competent person moves away from a city.[/QUOTE] Competent people moving away? More like large scale theft and a clean getaway.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45692373]Textwall[/QUOTE] You should write a book about you and your grandfathers experiences in your beloved city falling on hard times. No seriously, a lot of people would be interested in experiences in cities that have fallen from their golden age, just look at [I]The other Wes Moore.[/I] Colleges love these sorts of books. If well written it could easily become a best seller. Who knows, maybe the increased awareness might make your dream of the city returning to grace that much closer.
Oh my god the irony. :v: Sucks that happened to such a well intentioned person though.
I feel really bad for the guy but why would he leave $8,500 worth of stuff including the recordings (that you never made backups of) in your car in one of the most crime-ridden cities on the planet? I know people who have had their stuff lifted in similar ways in vancouver, I sure as hell wouldn't do it in detroit
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45692373]Detroit runs the same issues of other highly industrialized towns like Buffalo. When the industries dropped with the steel mill closures in the mid 60's and early 70's, most people lost work and either bailed or stayed and tasted the harsh medicine of segregation coming into play. It's the harsh reality that any highly industrialized town will meet, and it fucking kills me. I look at tens to hundreds of abandoned buildings in Buffalo, NY. All of which have active movements to have them restored because people such as myself have heard the stories from their fathers or mothers, or even their grandfathers and grandmothers. One of the few stories that comes to mind of pre-collapse Buffalo is the Central Terminal... This story is something my grandfather told me about Buffalo, NY in the 1940's and 1950's. About how my grandfather remembers running to the Central Terminal to see my great grandfather Thaddeus and Joseph return from the war in Europe. How he remembers how that building was lit up, and had thousands of American and Canadian flags to greet the returning GI's from both countries. He remembers buildings like that as well as how Buffalo was better back then because it was actually still a highly industrialized city with less segregation issues compared to today. When the Steel Mills and Food Factories crashed though, everything was lost in an instant, and Buffalo folk had to deal with the horrors of the crash. Cattaragus Creek has nuclear material burried under it, that is possibly contaminating ground water. This was from a closed nuclear power plant that was forced to close down with the hundreds to thousands of people leaving Buffalo after the crash. My most fond memory of that creek is going with my father and his friends, and catching a large female steelhead bare handed, and saving a fishing trip from going bust. Then you have the Buffalo Harbor... Still contaminated from the rapid-closures of the Steel Mills. My friends and I would be paid by some of the General Mills factories to go about clearing out rodents outside of the buildings in the shipping yards that would attempt to rip open the packaging. Many good nights were spent using air rifles against those giant rodents. And finally you have places like the central part of town. Once a very prosperous neighborhood, that now you cannot even so much as walk in during night time without getting mugged or shot. Like Detroit, the rapid reverse of industrialization has caused massive amounts of segregation, as well as crashing our fragile, yet beautiful towns. My family in Buffalo still lives with those problems on a daily basis, because our country has turned a blind eye to these cities because they are just "Screwed up shitholes" and it's pretty upsetting. One of these days Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, all of those once great cities will return to their former glory, and I await those days.[/QUOTE] I enjoyed this read man; very interesting stuff
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