Detroit Wildlife from florent tillon on Vimeo.

Detroit Wildlife is a taster video to find a production in France. I shot it this summer 2008. Detroit was known to be the city of car industry, with General Motors, Ford and Chrysler : Motorcity, the city of the Big Three…
Now, 4O years passed from the beginning of the crisis, and the vision of Detroit that other people have around the world is more a Mad Max picture than anything else… When I was there this summer, I found something else, really, very far from this reputation : I founded great people, wonderfull landscape, and a life rather pleasant, after all…
What I learned this summer, is that Detroit was there before the cars, and it will be there after…