9-11 Sade's By Your Side
"By Your Side", Lovers Rock, Words and Music by Sade.
This is an early film of mine, before the advanced editing tools of today. It was painstaking assembled by hand in a simple quicktime timeline.
The whole message was Sade's lyric "by your side". That in face of the most terrifying attack, emergency personnel turned towards their greatest fears to be "by your side". How each stood together during life and in death. This film was done before the mean-spirited revelations about fire trucks filled with jeans from an abandoned retail store, before the minor failures were elevated to joke about their bravery. I am not sure I could ever do a film like this again, my Iraq film was nowhere as difficulty as this one but perhaps in retrospect the larger horror will be revealed in Iraq which may dwarf the tragedy that was America's and the world's on Sep 11 2001.