Why is there no voice-over narration in WORLD TOURISM CENTER?
That was the easiest way for me to make my work non-judgmental. Just show the sights and sounds, recreate the environment, that’s all I really wanted to do. Of course, a very skillful filmmaker can provide a very fair and non-judgmental voiceover, and of course not having a voiceover narration doesn’t mean there won’t be editorializing going on in the decisions I make while editing the footage. But I decided to play with what I thought were my strengths, to do a lot of showing, not so much telling people what to think. There’s been plenty of telling going around anyway, for better or worse. What do you feel you learned or gained from the experience of making WORLD TOURISM CENTER? I think it really helped me connect to a lot of the humanity of this tragedy and its aftermath. Not in the commonly accepted notion of humanity as heroism, sacrifice, all those noble ideas that happen every once in a while. Doing this piece helped me consider that understanding humanity may involve understandi
