September Mourning

This film is a commemorative Requiem for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It's an attempt to recreate the emotions of that day with dramatic color interactions and music. The color is animated by gravity and the natural flow of fluids. The scale is very small, almost microscopic in some sections. It's ironic that the closer you look at something the more cosmic and huge it appears to be. The haunting and evocative music is by Shay Lynch. It was written for a 9/11 memorial ceremony in his hometown of Olean, New York, where it's to be performed by a high school orchestra. - Jeff Scher

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jeff Scher
• 9/11
• Requiem
• experimental
• animation
• short
• classical
• Shay Lynch
• NYU
• art
• water-color
• len lye
• belson
• colors
• painting
• rothko
• Motherwell
• Miro
• classical music

[KakashiLvr26]

i played this in the olean high school orchestra with shay lynch conducting :) it was cool

[Roboberto]

Beautiful . . . the film and the music . . . such a powerful spiritual metaphor--the endlessly upward rising. Contratulations to you and Shay.

[DoreHFilms]

Thank you.

[tygler73]

The heat, the vapor, the fluid melting of metal, and the raining of horror all caught in painted speech. Evocative and very moving, Jeff.

VStudley

[aletorres2864]

very nice!

[shampoovta]

This a wonderful requiem for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

[vincentkatz]

This is one of the most innovative responses I have seen. Way to go, Jeff!

[JerryTHEangeldog]

You have placed us all in there; watching, listening, running,waiting, living, dying, rising, falling, alone yet together. Touching.

[VeronicaBetty]

Spectacular and heartbreaking. It captures the idea of those mesmerizing images we couldn't turn away from and the hopes we had that that week that never materialized.

[daveLLL]

fantastic and very moving Jeff.