A powerful variation on what may already be a genre: the security-camera film. The film was made from a studio in the former World Trade Center in New York (see also A Room With a View by Carola Dertnig, that also came about in that tragic building). Brown divides her image strictly into four, which is briefly interrupted by what looks like a technical fault.
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. -
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. -
A Room with a View in the Financial District
Before it all happened, an artist looked around the WTC in New York. In retrospect, it all looks very spooky. -
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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
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
