17. 11’09”01
 
11 Nations
11 Directors
world premiere 2002
U.S. release 2003
 

 
Because the world profits from having a record not just of the insights and artistic interventions prompted in the direct wake of the towers' collapse but also of the bathos, confusion, and asymmetries that flourished in that moment. Which is not to say that any version of this project would be foolproof. Half of the films are truly stellar; the sum of all of them is even stronger.