"Disintegration Loop 1.1" by William Basinski


Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had recorded in August, 2001. Shot from Basinski's roof in Williamsburg Brooklyn, this is an actual documentary of how he and his neighbors witnessed the end of that fateful day.

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It's been 25 years, and not one soul is forgotten. We remember not only those who perished that day. We remember the thousands who have died since then because of the toxins they breathed in at ground zero and in the surrounding area. We remember the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans killed due to hateful, senseless wars. We remember the grieving who took their own lives. We remember how the world changed that day, and we bear witness to all the suffering that was unleashed.