The James Blue Project

The James Blue Project

The Invisible City

THE INVISIBLE CITY

Houston’s Housing Crisis

USA, 1979, Super 8 film and 3/4 inch video, color & sound

Directed by: James Blue, Adèle Naudé Santos

Video and film production: Lynn Corcoran, Tom Sims

Produced with support from: Texas Committee for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, KUHT-TV, Channel 8, Houston, TX. Produced by Southwest Alternate Media Project.

Part #1 – 59:30 min

Part #2 – 29 min

Part #3 – 29 min

Part #4 – 29 min

Part #5 – 59:30 min

Part #6 (Summary) – 60 min

Application for Funding for the Making of The Invisible City

Written in 1978 for the Texas Committee for the Humanities and reprinted from Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers 1973-1990, edited by Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel for ZKM, MIT Press, 2008.

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Article by Series Videographer Tom Sims

“Golden Buckle of Sunbelt Tarnished,” reprinted from Southwest Media, Spring 1980, p. 16.

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Transcript of Episode One

Reprinted from Houston Breakthrough, September 1979, pp. 16-19.

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Article by Matt Dulin

“A Generation Ago, a Documentary Revealed an Unseen Housing Crisis in Houston” from  the Kinder Institute’s Urban Edge

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University of Oregon Sponsored by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art UO Libraries

A collaborative project of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, UO Libraries, and Cinema Pacific utilizing the James Blue Archive in Special Collections, and implemented with the participation of the James Blue Research Interest Group.