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A Room with a View in the Financial District

A Room with a View in the Financial District

Carola Dertnig | Austria, USA | 2003 | 5' |

| IFFR 2004

In the summer of 2001, the film maker was given a studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center as part of a grant. But she couldn’t settle down to work there and decided to make shots of the many empty offices and to give guided tours. Not a word is said about the attack in this film that acquires its tension solely thanks to the prior knowledge of the spectator.

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