Memorial Land (2012)

In the decade since the events of 9112001 the United States has been engaged in a national act of memorial making Some of these 911 memorials are contested sites where conflicting visions and voices clash But most are quiet and deeply personal This short nonfiction film examines some of these memorials and the reasons why seven people made the unlikely decision to build them A woman in Wisconsin hopes to franchise her homemade memorial in all 50 states A gay priest in Kentucky dedicates a storefront church to a victim of 911 A man in New Jersey builds a scale model of the Twin Towers on his front lawn and decorates them with Christmas lights None of these monument makers had lost any friends or relatives that day All of them watched the tragedy unfold at a distance and it is this distance that they hope to cross