Tag Archives for 9/11
Radio: Paramedic Humor
Listen:
A brief piece about the weird and wacky humor of a NYC paramedic, James Dobson.
Credits
Interview: Repurposed sound from an oral history conducted by Gerry Albarelli for the 9/11 Oral History Project at Columbia University.
Produced by Sarah Loose and Liza Zapol, for Radio Off the Dial.
Quote
Sometimes we tell our humor and people don’t get it. They’re like, “That ain’t too funny.” And to us it’s funny.
Featured on The Metropolitan Museum Website
My Multimedia Project, September 11, 2011 at The Metropolitan Museum, was featured on the homepage of The Metropolitan Museum website for over a week, a site which gets 40,000,000 visitors a year!
Here’s what the website says:
Zapol’s film reveals the role of the Museum as a place for individuals to remember, to contemplate, to seek meaning and solace in works of art, and, ultimately, to come together.
Watch the piece by clicking here
September 11, 2011 at The Metropolitan Museum
At the Metropolitan Museum November 15, 2011 until January 22, 2012.
Opposite the 9/11 Peace Story Quilts, in the Uris Education Center
Memories of September 11, 2001, ten years later.
Interviews with visitors, educators, artist Faith Ringgold, and young artists.
Exploration of The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt (created by Faith Ringgold and the InterRelations Collaborative).
Credits
Direction & Interviews: Liza Zapol
Photography: Amanda Kowalski
Commissioned by: The Metropolitan Museum, New York City, 2011.
Quote
“The children came up with… something that was so beautiful and peaceful, out of something that was so ugly and violent.”
—Faith Ringgold