A Room with a View in the Financial District
In the summer of 2001, the film maker was given a studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center as part of a grant. But she couldn’t settle down to work there and decided to make shots of the many empty offices and to give guided tours. Not a word is said about the attack in this film that acquires its tension solely thanks to the prior knowledge of the spectator.
Also in this combined programme
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Texas Sunrise
Beauty and decay in a classic Texan landscape. In the background, a bum grumbles his sombre predictions. -
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ONE YEAR LATER – Interviews and Radio
On the road through America passing tourist landscapes. One year after September 11, the date comes round again. At least it does on the radio. -
Letters, Conversations: New York – Chicago Fall 2001
Personal impressions of a changing world. E-mails, letters and diary fragments augment the images after September 11 and the war in Afghanistan. -
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Independent Media in a Time of War
Yes, it’s war and then it’s not in the national interest to show everything, is it? But didn’t it all come down to the freedom…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Austria, USA
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
