(11'09''01, September 11 [de])
UK 2002
d: Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Shohei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanović
Arte TV (Region 0 de)
sc: Youssef Chahine, Sabrina Dhawan
c: Samuel Bayer (segment "USA"), Luc Drion (segment "Burkina-Faso"), Ebrahim Ghafori (segment "Iran"), Pierre-William Glenn (segment "France"), Yoav Kosh (segment "Israel"), Jorge Müller Silva (segment "United Kingdom"), Mustafa Mustafic (segment "Bosnia-Herzegovina"), Mohsen Nasr (segment "Egypt"), Masakazu Oka (segment "Japan"), Declan Quinn (segment "India"), Nigel Willoughby (segment "United Kingdom") (Color)
e: Rashida Abdel Salam (segment "Egypt"), Kim Bica (segment "Mexico")," Jay Lash Cassidy (segment "USA")," Robert Duffy (segment "Mexico")," Sherif Ezzat, Alejandro González Iñárritu (segment "Mexico"), Julia Gregory (segment "Burkina-Faso")," Allyson C. Johnson (segment "India"), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (segment "Iran")," Stéphane Mazalaigue (segment "France"), Jonathan Morris (segment "United Kingdom"), Kobi Netanel (segment "Israel"), Hajime Okayasu (segment "Japan")," Monique Rysselinck (segment "Bosnia-Herzegovina")
pd: Stephanie Carroll (segment "India"), Wendy Samuels (segment "USA")
m: Alexandre Desplat (title music), Michael Brook (segment "USA"), Mohammad Reza Darvishi (segment "Iran") Manu Dibango (segment "Burkina-Faso"), Osvaldo Golijov (segment "Mexico"), Tarô Iwashiro (segment "Japan"), Salif Keita (segment "Burkina-Faso"), Heitor Pereira (segment "USA"), Gustavo Santaolalla (segment "Mexico"), Vladimir Vega (segment "United Kingdom")
p: Nicolas Mauvernay, Jacques Perrin (CIH Shorts / Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP) / Comme des Cinémas / Galatée Films / Imamura Productions / La Générale de Production / Les Films 13 / Les Films de la Plaine / MISR International Films / Makhmalbaf Productions / Sequence 19 Productions / Sixteen Films Ltd. / Studio Canal / Zeta Film)
w: Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Jérôme Horry, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Haroun, Dzana Pinjo, Aleksandar Seksan, Tatjana Sojic, Lionel Zizréel Guire, René Aimé Bassinga
pr: 05 Sep 2002
aw: Venice Film Festival 2002 FIPRESCI Prize Best Short Film Ken Loach (Additional award), for the segment directed by Ken Loach, for the clarity and passion with which challenging ideas are presented; UNESCO Award
rt: 128:08 (+4%PAL= 134) min
dvd-rl: 11 Sep 2006
ar: 1.78:1 (4:3 Letterboxed Widescreen)
sd: MPEG-2 2.0 Mono
st: German
supp: --
As a riposte to the ideologues and compassion raiders who were first out of the gates after September 11, this collection of responses by 11 film-makers asserts an ambiguous plurality of perspectives on the tragedy. Here are images which resist the absolutist designs of both Bush and Bin Laden. To the extent that it is its own message, this may be that rarity, a portmanteau film that exceeds the sum of its parts. Inevitably, though, the parts themselves vary wildly in achievement and approach. Makhmalbaf and Ouedraogo filter the events through the eyes of children (in Iran and Burkino Faso), touching on the irony of Third World innocents consuming a First World tragedy. Others revisit the tragedies of other nations: Tanovic shows 'mourners in arms' in Srebrenica, Loach remembers the Chilean victims of US sponsored terrorism (easily the most lucid inclusion), while Gitaï indulges the hysteria of a Jerusalem suicide bombing in a hectoring demonstration of competitive horror. Taking another tack, Iñárritu recapitulates the Word Trade Center's demolition through a sound montage, suggesting that the exploitation of spectacle and revelation is a hoodwinking device. Lelouch and Penn also fasten on experiences of sensory deprivation, the former pointlessly, the latter, with a bereaved Ernest Borgnine, mawkishly. Which leaves Nair's episode, a straightforward true story of immigrant New Yorkers' loss and cultural prejudice; Chahine's, a clumsy but rumbustious debate with the dead; and Imamura's endpiece, a gnomic reflection on holy war as once fought by the Japanese.
— NB, Time Out Film Guide
