Link to the Show / Show NotesNext come fear and awe: "First Person 911," in which videomakers Luke Joerger and Ray Mendez edit together first-person camcorder footage taken by Lower Manhattan residents. The shaky, blown-out, prismatic snippets don?t just remind us that 9/11 was the most comprehensively covered violent incident in human history; it was also the first collective record of Americans grappling with two mutually exclusive modern urges: to get the shot, and to save themselves. (A young father taping the collapse of the first tower from the roof of his apartment building has to be cajoled into retreat by his wife; standing in an elevator, he lets the camera dangle limply, taping his own shoes as he stammers, "Holy shit, man.")
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