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Design: Justine Raczkiewicz
2007: September 11th Remembered in Film
09/07/07 - 09/10/07
6:00PM - 10:00PM
Design: Justine Raczkiewicz
Each year BAC Folk Arts addresses New York’s September 11th anniversary with a special memorial project. For the sixth anniversary we presented September 11th Remembered in Film, a screening of independent documentary and interpretive works.
We announced the call for submissions to local filmmakers and video artists in June and the response was tremendous. The material was wide ranging and revelatory, exposing new dimensions of visual and emotional response to September 11th. Among the films chosen were Susanna Styron’s 9/12: From Chaos to Community (2006), an intimate portrait focusing on a small group of New Yorkers who volunteered at Ground Zero; Tyler Cartner’s Demons, a child’s interpretation of September 11; Nina Davenport’s Parallel Lines (2004), a truly moving “roadtrip” series of interviews with ordinary Americans conducted as the filmmaker drove from San Diego to New York in November 2001; Al Santana’s In the Spirit of Peace (2007), a rare document of a candlelight peace vigil held in Brooklyn on September 21, 2001; and Moira Tierney’s American Dreams #3 (2002), a raw evocation using footage taken of New York survivors making their way home across the East River Bridges after the attacks.
Screenings and discussions with the filmmakers took place on four evenings.
September 7-10, 2007
6:00-9:00 p.m. at BAC
55 Washington Street, Suite 218
To help promote discussion, each evening centered around a theme. Participants were invited to renew through remembrance.
We announced the call for submissions to local filmmakers and video artists in June and the response was tremendous. The material was wide ranging and revelatory, exposing new dimensions of visual and emotional response to September 11th. Among the films chosen were Susanna Styron’s 9/12: From Chaos to Community (2006), an intimate portrait focusing on a small group of New Yorkers who volunteered at Ground Zero; Tyler Cartner’s Demons, a child’s interpretation of September 11; Nina Davenport’s Parallel Lines (2004), a truly moving “roadtrip” series of interviews with ordinary Americans conducted as the filmmaker drove from San Diego to New York in November 2001; Al Santana’s In the Spirit of Peace (2007), a rare document of a candlelight peace vigil held in Brooklyn on September 21, 2001; and Moira Tierney’s American Dreams #3 (2002), a raw evocation using footage taken of New York survivors making their way home across the East River Bridges after the attacks.
Screenings and discussions with the filmmakers took place on four evenings.
September 7-10, 2007
6:00-9:00 p.m. at BAC
55 Washington Street, Suite 218
To help promote discussion, each evening centered around a theme. Participants were invited to renew through remembrance.
Screening Schedule
Screenings began each evening at 6:00 p.m.
Friday, September 7: Communities
American Dreams # 3
Moira Tierney
9/11 Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn
Randi Cecchine
9/12: From Chaos to Community
Susanna Styron
Through My Eyes
Shawn Batey
All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11
Lillian Benson
Brooklyn Promenade
Mark Street
Saturday, September 8: Parallels
Watching Smoke from the Other Side
Sara Ching-Yu Sun
Market Day
Anita Glesta
Legally Blind
Ingrid Rojas
Demons
Tyler Cartner
Stardust
Colin Gee
We Are Family
Danny Schechter
I ♥ Hip-Hop in Morocco
Josh Asen
Sunday, September 9: Windows
Say Can You See
Tony Caio
Zahira’s Peace
Nina Rosenblum
Welcome to New York
Norman Cowie
The History Makers
Louise Tiranoff/ Lynn McVeigh
America Rebuilds II- Return to Ground Zero
Kenneth Mandel/ Daniel Polin
Monday, September 10: Vigils
The Disappearing View
Simon Lund
Searching for Sense
Katja Esson
In the Spirit of Peace
Al Santana
Parallel Lines
Nina Davenport
FDNY Thank You Ride
Mike Gaughan
In Memoriam 9/11
Alicia Ng
Closure
D.R.Hernandez
Screenings began each evening at 6:00 p.m.
Friday, September 7: Communities
American Dreams # 3
Moira Tierney
9/11 Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn
Randi Cecchine
9/12: From Chaos to Community
Susanna Styron
Through My Eyes
Shawn Batey
All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11
Lillian Benson
Brooklyn Promenade
Mark Street
Saturday, September 8: Parallels
Watching Smoke from the Other Side
Sara Ching-Yu Sun
Market Day
Anita Glesta
Legally Blind
Ingrid Rojas
Demons
Tyler Cartner
Stardust
Colin Gee
We Are Family
Danny Schechter
I ♥ Hip-Hop in Morocco
Josh Asen
Sunday, September 9: Windows
Say Can You See
Tony Caio
Zahira’s Peace
Nina Rosenblum
Welcome to New York
Norman Cowie
The History Makers
Louise Tiranoff/ Lynn McVeigh
America Rebuilds II- Return to Ground Zero
Kenneth Mandel/ Daniel Polin
Monday, September 10: Vigils
The Disappearing View
Simon Lund
Searching for Sense
Katja Esson
In the Spirit of Peace
Al Santana
Parallel Lines
Nina Davenport
FDNY Thank You Ride
Mike Gaughan
In Memoriam 9/11
Alicia Ng
Closure
D.R.Hernandez
September 11th Remembered in Film Invitation
> September_11_in_Film_Invite.pdf (9257.146 kb)
> September_11_in_Film_Invite.pdf (9257.146 kb)
September 11th Remembered in Film Press Release
> September_11th_Remembered_in_Film_Final_Release.pdf (86.467 kb)
> September_11th_Remembered_in_Film_Final_Release.pdf (86.467 kb)
View the trailer for the film 9/12: From Chaos to Community, dir. Susanna Styron.
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