
Detroit Wildlife
3 years ago
Hi Folks ! The VOD of DETROIT WILD CITY is available here NOW :
touscoprod.com/root_view/one_vod?id=210
BUT it's not the official releasing... It's a contribution for my next project LAS VEGAS MEDITATION. Feel free to contribute or to wait for the official VOD later with the normal price...
BEST
FLORENT TILLON
BESIDE, you can make donations for my next project LAS VEGAS MEDITATION :
babeldoor.com/las-vegas-meditation
touscoprod.com/project/produce?id=173
I hope that you'll like the teaser...
BEST
Florent Tillon
This is the "taster" video than I made in summer 2008. I was back in the city of Detroit summer 2009 to make the feature version with a production : DETROIT WILD CITY.
The feature film is completed since 2010.
GOOD NEWS ! the DVD is avalaible now for institutions like university, library, etc ! So you can write to the editor to get it ! The email of the editor is : elie@editions-mf.com OR elie@metm.org.
For the regular public audience, please keep waiting ; we are working on a online purchase system...
DETROIT WILD CITY SOON ON VOD HERE : mubi.com/films/41330
ALL SCREENING-DATES, NEWS, PHOTOS, ARE NOW HERE :
facebook.com/pages/Detroit-Wild-City/201056733262283
THANK YOU
touscoprod.com/root_view/one_vod?id=210
BUT it's not the official releasing... It's a contribution for my next project LAS VEGAS MEDITATION. Feel free to contribute or to wait for the official VOD later with the normal price...
BEST
FLORENT TILLON
BESIDE, you can make donations for my next project LAS VEGAS MEDITATION :
babeldoor.com/las-vegas-meditation
touscoprod.com/project/produce?id=173
I hope that you'll like the teaser...
BEST
Florent Tillon
This is the "taster" video than I made in summer 2008. I was back in the city of Detroit summer 2009 to make the feature version with a production : DETROIT WILD CITY.
The feature film is completed since 2010.
GOOD NEWS ! the DVD is avalaible now for institutions like university, library, etc ! So you can write to the editor to get it ! The email of the editor is : elie@editions-mf.com OR elie@metm.org.
For the regular public audience, please keep waiting ; we are working on a online purchase system...
DETROIT WILD CITY SOON ON VOD HERE : mubi.com/films/41330
ALL SCREENING-DATES, NEWS, PHOTOS, ARE NOW HERE :
facebook.com/pages/Detroit-Wild-City/201056733262283
THANK YOU
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I also got an idea while watching this :) I think it would be crazy awesome if the 'like' button could be mapped out over the timeline of the video. So you could get an idea *when* people were hitting the like button.
I'm not sure how you'd show it - but I think it would be awesome :)
florent-tillon.fr
Best of luck on your project!
I'm glad you decided to take on this project. Many people aren't aware of the decay that's happening in the city.
I'm pretty sure your film will make someone aware of what's happening.
Merci
I really like the shot in the very beginning of the empty streets...
The shots of the Michigan Central Station are beautiful - I've been inside that place a year ago and it is... just amazing how huge and empty and unfinished it is. The front lobby is... to imagine it as it was once was.... was breathtaking.
I'm from Michigan... and with the way the economy has been the last several years... I worry what has happened to Detroit will spread to Ypsi and Ann Arbor and Jackson and all over...
I love emptiness so much... and this has so much of it.
Beautiful.
17:08 = amazing shot. I wish I could 'like' this more than once.
good luck with the major film!!!
I was not aware of this ...
My great father lived in Detroit for many years, working in car industries.
At the beginning I thinked it was not the reality, something like Mars Attack from Welles !
Thanks for sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go on with the real one !!!
I've been to Detroit several times and I love the shots and story you were able to gather. It was erie to see such emptiness in such a large city. The pacing and cinematography were outstanding. Not sure the City of Detroit would be interested in this for their tourism but as a filmmaker I saw so many locations that really peeked my eye. I really wish you the best for your feature.
There are several photo sites dedicated to the ruins of Detroit. A google search will find them.
As a filmmaker who grew up in Detroit, I plan to do at least one movie there. SOSAD! :(
I live about 30 minutes north of Detroit and just shot some images down there (vimeo.com/2335712).
If you are coming back this summer look me up if you need some assistance!
Rex K
This is as much a tragedy as hurricane Katrina, except it happend over many years, not days.
I would like to see the Federal Government step up and tear down all the nasty buildings and return much of the land to farming. Then the city would have a chance to recover.
Thanks for this and dont change anything.
In the segment where the guy was pushing ovens, etc. out of the window, you could clearly see the brand-new Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions!
Florent Tillon, you have a great talent. Even in this miserable Godforsaken economy, there must be financing available for an incredible project like this. Keep knocking on doors until you get it!
I have read your piece with a great interest !
Shure, you can post my video on your blog, you could even have post it without asking me...
But in return, could you give me your email adress ?
bye
But these are suggestions; you already have plenty, and the more you hear from Detroiters, the more suggestions you'll receive--however, you have a great basis here; best of luck to you.
driving to the eastern market just this past saturday we had to stop while about 20 wild pheasants crossed the street. on a run last summer i stumbled upon quite a few chickens just pecking around in a field, no more than 3/4 of a mile from the heart of downtown. i've even seen foxes crossing west grand boulevard!
thank you for making this. it reminds me how much opportunity we have here in the D.
Instead of Detroit trying to revitalize decaying single family housing blocks, they simply bulldozed them. Between downtown Detroit and the "first ring suburbs" you could literally begin your own forest,. On my way to work one morning I saw a deer grazing in an open field on Canfield between 1-75 and Gratiot.
Detroiters carry on amid all the hardships
freep.com/article/20090110/COL01/301100004/Detroiters%20carry%20on%20amid%20all%20the%20hardship
This video is so beautiful! vive le detroit.
They will most likely be busking there this summer all the time, and if you want to see an inside glimpse to the cass corridor art scene of detroit when you come back, feel free to hit me up.
Good luck and great videos!
I personally found the introverted nature of the Renaissance Centre in contrast to the extroverted emerging activity of local markets to be most moving.
freep.com/article/20090216/BUSINESS06/902160355/Leave+it+to+beaver+to+prove+river+cleaner
That's gonna be in the film...
I heard that 23 school of Detroit will be closed. That's rude. It's a little bit schizo for me that kind of news, cause it's going on the way of the film, but in the same time, I love so much this city and its people that it strike the heart to imagine those school closed, those neighborhood vanishing... Sometimes I fell very angry against GM and Ford, who let goes the factory in mexico to make money, and now, weeping in front of the white house asking for money...
Spread the news!
Mascha!
blog.portablefilmfestival.com/blog/post/detroit-wildlife/
but you know what this would be perfect for? as a HUGE set for movies! if it would be used for that, I bet the city's popularity would increase again.
so where are you, hollywood filmmakers? turn this city into the biggest movie-set in the world!
However, as a lifelong Detroiter I noticed some things that an outsider wouldn't catch. Many of your vacant street shots in the downtown area must have been taken very early in the morning, and probably on a Sunday. I'm not taking issue with it, because I understand the point you want to make, but it does make Detroit look even more abandoned than it actually is. There is no denying our situation here is not good, but I can see how an outsider would view this and think "I am Legend". It's nothing like that.
You should also extend your scope out to Highland Park, Brightmoor, State Fair/John R area etc so that people can see that the crisis is not contained just near the Corktown and Eastern Market areas.
Finally, one CAN NOT discuss the destruction of Detroit without covering the completely inept leadership of this city and our schools, if one wishes to teach the viewer how a city can fail so completely. Too often, people just rack up Detroit's woes to the loss of manufacturing jobs, but it is so much more than that. Look at how Pittsburgh has remade themselves after the loss of all the steel mill jobs, into one of the most beautiful cities in the US. The key difference there has been a continuing investment in education and qualified leaders interested in fixing the city rather than just lining their pockets - neither of which we have had in this city.
More damaging than the loss of manufacturing jobs in this city has been the effects of a corrupt city council, mayor and school board over the last 40 years. Detroit Public Schools just recently scored the lowest of any school district in history last month. That is more the result of our schools and our leadership, than any recent job loss, and it sure doesn't bode well for our future when we are turning out the least educated adults in the industrialized world. This is sure to lead to more crime and even less innovation, continuing the downward spiral we have been in for the last 40 years (even while jobs were plentiful, Detroit suffered from rampant crime and flight, proving that manufacturing has only played a small part in what has happened here.)
With your talent, you have a great opportunity to educate people on a subject most will never see for themselves firsthand. Don't be afraid to show the whole picture, truth is actually stranger than fiction.
i agree with yuckystuff that the whole picture needs to be shown to educate people about Detroit.
Actually, the first part of the film will be the negative part and the second one the positive part, if you will...
can you list the soundtrack to this film? i am interested in some of the music. thanks,
patrick
the electro is from william basinski, and the classical from bach...