Vanishing Ruins: Visions of Detroit August 7, 2007

FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
Third Eye Cinema presents two new films capturing the tragic urban beauty of Detroit, Michigan. The filmmakers evoke the history of a place haunted by the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the present using the small gauge intimacy of Super 8mm film. I PITY THE FOOL is Brent Coughenour's ambitious, feature-length experimental narrative investigating the clues to a mystery both epic and accidental. In Coughenour's words, "As a city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted from rubble - an archeology of unanswered questions combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier." The feature presentation will be preceded by Detroit-based filmmaker Jack Cronin's sublime INVISIBLE CITY, a poetic document of fleeting and fugitive urban space and time.

Official Website: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/calendar.php#detroit