In WE ARE NOT GHOSTS, Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post-industrial world.
Fifty years ago Detroit was booming with two million hard-working people living the American Dream. Then the auto industry crashed and so did the Motor City. Most moved away; whole neighborhoods turned into wastelands. But some didn't give up on the city they love. They had a vision of Detroit as a human-scaled city for a post industrial world, and they are working to make it real.
WE ARE NOT GHOSTS tells their stories: from community businesses, to place-based schools, to thriving urban gardens and spoken word artists. These are the tales of Detroiters remaking their city with vision and spirit.
52 minutes
SDH Captioning for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing
A film by Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young
Produced by Moving Images
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"Detroiters recount their own history, and show how they're rebuilding the city they love.
The next best thing to being there."
YES! Magazine