Here’s a new trailer for a film that really grabbed me when I caught it at TIFF late last year. David Belton and Bjørn Johnson’s superb film, Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11, I described at the time, as ‘deeply personal, devastating, and touching – a film reminiscent of Michael Apted’s ’21 Up’ series’. After a release stateside, the film screens today on 18th January, 9pm on SKY Documentaries and NOW TV.
In the months following the 9/11 attacks nearly six hundred people – survivors and eyewitnesses – entered a simple plywood video booth. Inside this safe space, ordinary people used a self-operated camera to record their deepest feelings of trauma and loss. Some of the original contributors return twenty years later during the Covid pandemic, to a new video booth to reflect on living with grief after 9/11 and during the current pandemic.
My review said: ‘David Belton and Bjørn Johnson’s film is skilfully crafted, tightly edited and wonderfully presented. Devastating, almost unwatchable in places, but absolutely extremely important documentary filmmaking.’
Read the full review at the end of the link and check out the new trailer below.
