The Town
1999 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
5 min 10
Michel Auder
The Town consists of footage taken from Auder’s studio of the skyline of New York, tracking planes as they fly across the sky and pass tall buildings. At the time of recording, like all of this films, there was no particular intent. However, in the aftermath of 9/11, this film becomes prescient and ominously prophetic. Planes fly by and through buildings, including the World Trade Centre and while the film begins with a soundtrack, the final footage of fog swirling around the WTC is silent. Although never made as a memorial to the destruction of the WTC this film cannot help but become one. It is the most extraordinary piece of serendipity and a tribute to Auder’s methods of filming random moments that retrospectively acquire meaning.
Michel Auder was born in 1945 in Soissons, France. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
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