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September 11, 2006
Getting away from mad fact: Toronto 2001
indieWIRE linked to an article I wrote for them from Toronto on September 11, 2001: "Pure joy, pure bliss: I saw a movie called "Amelie" on Monday night that may make my fictional year. Little tears sting my eyes throughout this dream of a dream world. I am sated. 
I join friends from New York at a party for a pseudo-documentary about youth and ambition set in Los Angeles. We talk about what we have seen. I think of questions to ask the director of "Amelie." I wake a little after 10 A.M. on Tuesday to the voice of my festival roommate. CNN is on in the living room. We watch the footage from New York. We're kibitzing in a void, not really listening to each other, just commenting and theorizing so gravity does not pin us to the ground. Toronto local lines work; I can get on-line. Cell phone, forget about it. I have to presume my New York friends are fine. None live or work near the World Trade Center. He and I watch the footage, ash-covered emergency vehicles slaloming between pedestrians, spilled into the street, faces mostly blank, some bloodied, all urgently getting away: from danger, from cameras, from mad fact." [More at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at September 11, 2006 11:17 AM
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