Screening: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2010)
THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH (2010, Dir.Chad Freidrichs, 83′). It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing…