Subject: The history of notoriously ill-fated public housing project Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis
Director: Chad Freidrichs
The destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe project is a climactic event in the film Koyaanisqatsi, but I'd always wanted to know more about it. If people lived there, what happened to them? How could things get so bad that public services refused to go there?
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth combines archival footage with five or six interviews with former residents, most of whom grew up there. It's a little light on footage however, and several of the shots are repeated. There's not really a great format in which to present this material, but the director does create a moving montage at the end. I'm still left with questions, but unfortunately most of them have been answered the same way that these things go: institutional racism, neglect, wishcasting, and the assurance that everyone involved would benefit except for the actual residents.
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