An award-winning filmmaker whose upcoming documentary celebrates Detroit techno music lost expensive equipment to thieves early Tuesday in Eastern Market.
Kristian Hill, who grew up in Detroit and graduated from Mumford High School, told Katrease Stafford of the Free Press his documentary, which was screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival, might now be in jeopardy after thieves broke into his car and stole all of his camera equipment.
Stafford writes:
Hill said the equipment, two Canon cameras, four lenses, and a Zoom audio recorder is worth nearly $8,500. He said the equipment’s replaceable, but he’s desperate to get his hands back on the audio, which he says is key in finishing the documentary.
“I can’t even begin to say how important it is to get that back,” he said. “That audio, it’s my movie. I hope it turns up, just somehow. While I’ve been here, I interviewed close to 20 people, not only did I interview 20 people, but I videotaped and documented at least 20 performances. It’s a rather wide-ranging effect that not having the audio would have on my film. Everything I’ve done is on that device.”
His documentary, Electric Roots: The Detroit Sound Project, is described on the film's website as a work "that connects and explores the deep origins of techno music in Detroit to parts known and unknown all over the world."
