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Letters, Conversations: New York – Chicago Fall 2001

Letters, Conversations: New York – Chicago Fall 2001

Letters, Conversations: New York - Chicago Fall 2001

Mary Patten | USA | 2002 | 11' |

| IFFR 2004

Personal and poetic reflection on events during and after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Texts borrowed from e-mails, telephone conversations, letters and diary entries illustrate images of the wounded city of New York, but also of life going on as usual. A more distant reality (Afghanistan for instance) suddenly penetrates the film through shots from the media.

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