7pm
Wrestling with Angels
(Freida Lee Mock, USA, 98 min., 35mm, 2006)
9pm
I Pity the Fool
(Brent Coughenour, 85 minutes, super 8/DV, 2007)
In 2005, the city of Detroit was engaged in a series of efforts to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought to the city by the hosting of the 2006 Super Bowl. Part of these efforts consisted in demolishing long-vacant buildings determined by the city to be eyesores or classified as “dangerous.” As the 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 day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are gathering. It is going to rain.
