Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality – A Symposium the editors November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium The relation between cinema and reality changed on September 11. All distinction between screen fantasy and the crises of history seemed to disappear in a flash. Immediately, people registered the horror they w...
Email from Australian Documentary Filmmaker Tom Zubrycki to Friends, New York, September 18 2001 Tom Zubrycki November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Dear Friends, It's hard to describe the last few days except that they've been traumatic and difficult – yet also strangely life-affirming. Last Tuesday I was having breakfast with my Australian friend Ir...
Reality and Illusion Bernard Hemingway November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium In a recent article published in the Melbourne Age's lifestyle supplement, The Good Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard castigated Steven Spielberg, and by extension the Hollywood Dream Factory, for using cinema to entert...
A Reflection Mark Angeli November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium In Cinema veritas “It was like a scene out of a movie.” Everybody who saw September's* Grand-Guignol show has voiced or thought some variation of those words. Of course it was. Our films reflect us. On t...
A Reflection Stephen Teo November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Has the cinema brought about September 11? Did the terrorists learn their tactics from the action blockbusters of Hollywood? Is the cinema culpable? Such questions presuppose that the cinema can determine or in...
The End of Cinema? Ian Buchanan November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium PROPOSITION: The wound to New York and the wound to cinema are inextricably linked and it is only when New York figures out what it needs to do to heal itself that cinema will be able to do the same. Theodor...
On the Big Set Gabe Klinger November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Following the advice of a few New York City friends and family, I decided to walk from my 34th Street location and into the core of Lower East Manhattan during a recent trip to the Big Apple. Arriving, I fel...
A Reflection David Sterritt and Mikita Brottman November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium One need not be a psychologist or a semiotician to recognize that the destruction of the World Trade Center's arrogant Twin Towers was a symbolic castration, annihilating the world's most widely known symbol of...
A Reflection Dimitri Tsahuridis November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Some 50 days after that tragic day in September, which may come to divide our lives, I feel uncomfortable in speaking openly and honestly about the consequences of and responses to the event. This is an issue w...
A Reflection David Walsh November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Thank you for your invitation to reflect on the September 11 events. Rather than emphasizing – as the American media have done, for example, for their own purposes – how “everything changed” on September 11,...
Mediation and Affect in New York Jonathan Oake November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek – always quick off the mark – wasted no time whatsoever in providing, via the internet, his scattered reflections on the “Attack on America”. Most interesting was his ruminati...
Things are Forever Changed: Business as Usual Michael Levine November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Human beings seem to be put together in such a way that no matter how extensive and ironclad their experience, it is never sufficient to dash their hopes. On the whole, this is of course a fortunate thing. But ...
