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The film 11'09"01 (A905582) is actually a collection of 11 segments, from different directors, all giving their own perspectives on Sept 11th. The first Ken Loach knew of the film was a phone call from the production company, inviting him to contribute towards the project with a film of 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame in length.
So what gave him the idea? "Speaking on the phone to Vladimir [a friend, who appeared in 'Ladybird, Ladybird'] he said to me 'you do realise that tuesday Sept 11th is the same day of the coup in Chile in 1973?' I thought the irony of this co-incidence was overwhelming and so I had to tell the story. It says something interesting about the idea of what you dish out coming back." The segment is a clever montage of the Chilian talking and singing, and real footage from the Chilian atrocities, footage Vladimir knew well. "There was massive coverage of the Sept 11th in America, but very little about the one in Chilie." The link drawn between the events is not just about shared tragedy though, as Ken explains. "Since Sept 11th there's been a great deal about how the event happened, but very little about why. We have to deal with that. It's tempting to become absorbed with the propaganda, but Sept 11th '01 was a political event, the propaganda abstracts away from this." The film has no distributor in America, for fear that it is 'anti-American'. Alexander Walker (of the Evening Standard) said Ken had brought 'shame on the country'. Are the media against it? "It's very frustrating that the ideas are not absorbed into the mainstream. I've done three interviews with BBC programmes this week, where the points have been made and ideas challenged. However you watch the main BBC news and it doesn't exist, the points do not become part of the debate."
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