KEVIN MORRISON
DIRECTING
Statement and Work
Below is the text which accompanies the short documentary film Pilgrimage.
As a filmmaker, I must be clear about my vantage point in any given project. Where am I standing? What am I looking for? Do the answers to these questions serve my material?
When I photographed Ground Zero in December, 2001, I wanted to be a surrogate. I wanted to offer the experience of "being there" to people who could not (or would not) visit the site. At the time, I knew native New Yorkers who would not visit Lower Manhattan. It was too depressing; it was too intense; in short, it was too difficult for one reason or another.
But I also knew that someday they would want to see the site as it was during that transitional period. And I knew that many others would also want that experience.
Pilgrimage was the ultimate result: a you-are-there approach to the experience of visiting Ground Zero. I stood at the barricades. I looked for images related to the experience: the faces of onlookers. I heard chatter of policemen. I saw the matter-of-fact firemen in their third month of searching The Pile for fallen comrades.
That was my vantage point. In Pilgrimage, I am proud to share it with film audiences.
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