3 Weeks after Paradise
Israel Horowitz’ monologue "3 Weeks After Paradise" recounts his day of terror and the weeks that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, detailing his worry, fears, and growing depression and anger. A resident of Lower Manhattan, Horowitz could not help but be deeply affected, but like many, he had something dear at stake: his teenage son Oliver is a student a Stuyvesant High, directly across the street from the towers. As he and his wife sit out the day in an apparent calm, given the circumstances, they both harbor fears that he might not be alive. Ollie turns out to be safe and sound, but the experience, just for an afternoon, of facing the possibility that his child might die before he did, leads Horowitz to brood on the cycle of life and death, of the role of survivors. Confronted with the signs of loss every day, Horowitz finds himself unable to shake his malaise. "3 Weeks After Paradise," then, constitutes both confession and an act of defiance, an exorcism of the demons that plague him since his pre-September 11 life was taken from him. Numerous family photos and films, plus scenes of the day and its aftermath, add to the haunting monologue, making the film a powerful statement of one man’s despair and his attempts to reconcile himself with the horror he sees.
USA - 2002 - 52 mn - Mini DV et Super 8 - Colour and B&W
Director
Israël Horovitz
Writer
Israël Horovitz
Camera
Ben Wolf
Sound
Andre Sala, Brian Devine, Jack Devine
Editing
Tim Kelly
Music
Peter Golub, Danny Mordujovich
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Production
Sanguine Film, Gigantic Pictures, Fountain Pen Inc., Bravo,
c/o Charmaine Ferenczi, Abrams Artists Agency, 275 Seventh Avenue, 26th Fl,
NY 10001 New York, Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Tél : +1 646 486 46 00
Fax : +1 646 486 01 00
E-mail : charmaine.ferenczi@abramsart.com
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Sales
Charmaine Ferenczi,
Abrams Artists Agency, 275 Seventh Avenue, 26th Fl,
NY 10001 New York, Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Tél : +1 646 486 46 00
Fax : + 1 646 486 01 00
E-mail : charmaine.ferenczi@abramsart.com |
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