The Shrinking City - Sipowicz goes Detroit, 2012, 35mins, digital video

Digital video mixing live action and computer modeled scenes follows on from 'Rushes - Detroit Scenario', 2011. 100 Years looks at Detroit's long-term economic cycles via it's architectural remains. The third part in a detective serialisation.

The sub-plot in this film is the artist recreating his journey to Detroit (played by the black urban explorer) - to examine ideas of what can drive urban regeneration. It is whilst considering Detroit that ideas for the Enclave arts infrstructure were born. This film marks a moment of convergence of previous strands in an artistsic practice incorporating architecture, computer environments, curating, to form a complete approach.

The first electric car was invented in Detroit in 1907 and the streets of New York were full of the silent vehicles until Ford massively undercut with his petrol-based, and efficiently produced Ford Model T. This moment heralded a new era of capitalism, social unrest and global pollution.

The characters of the urban explorer and the detective have their own view of what these sites of destruction mean and their projected memories and fantasies overlap and collapse. The last part of the century has been dominated by virtuality and not industrial production yielding new potential forms of optimistic democracies and virtual economies.

The film is the third episode in an on-going detective serialisation that includes 'Columbo Eats Columbo', 2009 - a study of immersion and the dawn of the digital age, and 'KANE's Revolutions', 2010, - a gangster sci-fi fantasy of urban regeneration in South London.

A retrospective of all three films have been shown in Feb 2013 at The Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hors Pistes 2013 curated by Geraldine Gomez.