Richie Hawtin has built a career at the intersection of techno, minimalism and digital performance tools. Work under his own name and as Plastikman spans decades of experimentation.

In Kids Like Us, a short film made with Luke Jaden, Hawtin revisits Detroit's early 1990s techno culture through a story shot on 35 mm film.

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