On Sept. 11, 2001, my roommate and I had just started our senior year at NYU; we were about five days into classes. [When American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower] it sounded like a giant tr…
On Sept. 11, 2001, my roommate and I had just started our senior year at NYU; we were about five days into classes. [When American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower] it sounded like a giant truck running over a construction site — we called them the metal Band-Aids they put on the street — and it woke me up. We lived on the 33rd floor of a high-rise in downtown Manhattan, on the east side of the island.
As a kid back then we didn’t have access to camera the way we do now, so there was a novelty to recording your friends and yourself at parties and your dorm room and all of those stupid things that made up home videos. I just recorded from the window. We had a very specific vantage point [but] it didn’t feel special in any way at the time. I wouldn’t have released it if my mom hadn’t gone and told the Milwaukee local news that I had it.
All through the morning, I kept thinking there were mistakes that kept happening. Seeing the second plane that crashed into the building, my literal first thought was, “There must be a Bermuda triangle happening in the sky.” It didn’t occur to me that someone had taken over a plane and purposely flown it into the building. The emotion I take away from that morning is the absolute resistance to think that this was a terrorist attack.
In the footage, I watch the plane crash and I know that 300 people just died, but I zoom out. I’m processing what I’m seeing and processing it to make it better to fit into the frame. There were two things happening, and the camera allowed it to be safe.
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