{"id":38,"date":"2005-09-16T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:31:19","slug":"110901-september-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/110901-september-11\/","title":{"rendered":"11’09″01 – September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

11’09″01 – September 11<\/em> is a portmanteau film comprised of shorts inspired by or in reaction to the September 11 attacks, made by directors from nearly every continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I thought for sure I would be giving this one more than three stars, but the quality of the short films takes a steep<\/em> dive after the first two. The first in particular, by Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf, is excellent. It opens on an entire Afghanistan village emptying their well in order to manufacture bricks to build shelters for when the US will bomb them. A female schoolteacher rounds up all the children and attempts to explain to them what happened in New York, and why the Americans are about to kill them. Step one: try to illustrate the concept of a skyscraper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short from Egypt is quite bad, and almost laughable (dig the ghost of a buff American Marine killed in Beruit, walking out of the ocean, soaking wet and topless). And unfortunately, Sean Penn<\/a>‘s contribution was over-edited into oblivion. But a late high point is Ken Loach’s documentary about the US-instigated overthrow of Chile’s democratically-elected government on… wait for it… September 11, 1973!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a bit of trivia: Mira Nair’s short was written by an old roommate I had back in film school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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