In the decade since the events of 9/11/2001, the United States has been engaged in a national act of memorial making. Some of these 9/11 memorials are contested sites, where conflicting visions and voices clash. But most are quiet and deeply personal. This short non-fiction film examines some of these memorials, and the reasons why seven people made the unlikely decision to build them. A woman in Wisconsin hopes to franchise her homemade memorial in all 50 states. A gay priest in Kentucky dedicates a storefront church to a victim of 9/11. A man in New Jersey builds a scale model of the Twin Towers on his front lawn and decorates them with Christmas lights. None of these monument makers had lost any friends or relatives that day. All of them watched the tragedy unfold at a distance, and it is this distance that they hope to cross.
Directed by Bill Brown
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sunkilmoon
6.0★ · 05/04/26
I think it's beautiful seeing the many different ways that people grieve and show their sympathy for people all over the world, whom they don't even know. I like the idea in this film but I don't think it hit home as hard as intended; I'm sure it would've been more effective in its day though.
I think it's beautiful seeing the many different ways that people grieve and show their sympathy for people all over the world, whom they don't even know. I like the idea in this film but I don't think it hit home as hard as intended; I'm sure it would've been more effective in its day though.