The Cycles of The Mental Machine

Jacqueline Caux

IndieLisboa 2007 •

France, Documentary, 2006, 57′

This documentary film aims at telling about the social and musical destiny of the city of Detroit. Within the maze of the city – after the civil riots of 1967 – are still the marks of different periods of peak, decline and rebirth, from Blues, through Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz to the Techno Music. The question is: Why is it here that a counter-culture sprung and spread?