2011, USA, documentary

Pruitt-Igoe is a housing complex in Saint Louis, Missouri. The complex has become a symbol of bad planning and the unsuccessful experiment of solving social issues through housing estates. Through interviews and archive footage we can follow the story from the promising start to the moment, when it was inevitable that the blocks should be demolished one by one. The movie presents a different point of view than the traditional – that the failure of the Pruitt-Igoe is a fault of the modernist architecture itself.

Duration: 79 min.

Language: English

Subtitles: Bulgarian

This film screening has been made possibly with the kind support of the Embassy of the USA in Sofia.