Just Like the Movies(2006)
If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.
Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.
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Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.
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2006-04-06
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If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.
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