DVD Release Date: May 15, 2012
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
...and the neighborhood comes tumbling down in The Pruitt–Igoe Myth.
The 2011 documentary film The Pruitt–Igoe Myth examines the facts and fiction surrounding the well-known urban housing project built in St. Louis, Missouri in the mid-1950s.
When it was first conceived, Pruitt-Igoe was considered to be a housing marvel. Built in 1956, it was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, “the poor man’s penthouse.” As the years passed, the complex became internationally infamous for its problems, which included widespread crime, segregation and poverty. Two decades after it was constructed, Pruitt-Igoe ended in rubble – its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called “the death of modernism.” The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth its failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents
The Pruitt–Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight and debunk what it considers to be mis-information, mythology, rumors and stigma surrounding the complex. To examine the interests involved in Pruitt-Igoe’s creation. To re-evaluate the rumors.
Directed by Chad Freidrichs, The Pruitt–Igoe Myth had a limited release to theaters in New York in Januarr, 2012, after played a host of film festivals in 2011. Criticial reception for the film has been excellent.
Bonus features include the following:
- Director’s commentary
- Short film: More Than One Thing, directed by Steve Carver (1969)
- Additional interviews
- Pruitt-Igoe Site Tour
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