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ZDF Heute Journal 18.8.206
Loose Change - 9/11 Erfolgsfilm
3Sat Fernsehen
08.08.2006 / Dominique Gradenwitz für Kulturzeit
www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/kulturzeit/themen/95635/index.html
Historical Mission
Three young filmmakers ask unpleasant questions in their film
"Loose Change"
Most controversial media event in the US is LC2 - seen by 20
million - unanswered questions
Quotes Dylon telling the history of the film.
40 % of americans believe in a conspiracy - growing feeling for
the need of a new investigation -
interesting for media analysts like Peter Hart: "many
unanswered questions - catastrophic event -
makes perfect climate for alternative theories." -
Film reports on explosions - questions about them - but nobody
knows really what happened.
for the filmmakers Bush is behind the attacks - but the film
can`t proove it -
media critic Peter Hart: "very popular film that moves many
people - but has many weak points - the mainstream media should
deal with the questions - why they do not do so - its their own
fault."
Mainstream media ignores the hard questions- but there a many LC
critical websites that contradict LC claims
point by point. - one point is Osamas ring - they show images
islamic clerics and Osama himself wearing jewellery.
LC team is convinced about their historical mission - "I
believe in this importance of this
information."
Loose Change comes close to the truth or falls for wild
speculations - that is not decided yet .
it seems clear that the US government turns LC into a web
blockbuster with its own misinformation
and their tactic to block information.
August, 1
FRONTPAGE ARTICLE
Berliner Zeitung - Berlin Daily
www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/feuilleton/573452.html
Andreas Förster
Slowly growing doubt
A film about 9/11 creates a furore in the US,
"Loose Change" is the title and it translates best like
"Beginning Change".
The perfect title it seems, because in the US slowly there is a
change of view towards 9/11 evolving. More and more people demand
the government to investigate the many contradictions and strange
coincidences concerning 9/11. Until today there is no official
police report existing that show the real chain of events that
took place on 9/11.
The movie the 22 year old filmmaker Dylan Avery worked on for 3
years together with 2 of his friends arranges in a perfect way
the well known "unanswered questions" of the 9/11
sceptics with original footage, interviews and a fitting music
background.
For example the film shows several times the impact of the first
plane into the North Tower in slow motion.
You see there is a flash coming out of the tower, before the
shadow touches the tower, - was the explosion not triggered by
the plane, but by an immediately before the impact fired missile?
The Pentagon. The movie shows an CNN report from the Pentagon
right after the attack: the lawn is untouched, there are only a
few small wreckage parts around, nothing to be seen of tail
section, wings ore engines, that would have broken of when the
plane impacted.
"It might look like it, but after I had a close-up look, I
think there is no proof that a plane crashed anywhere close to
the Pentagon" says the CNN reporter in his live report.
Was it really a missile that was hitting the Pentagon?
Dozens of more questions are put forward by the film: Why 7 hours
after the Twin Towers collapsed a another neighboring barely
damaged WTC building in which CIA and SEC had offices did
collapse? Why were the videocameras on the roof of the WTC that
normally feed the TV station with live pictures were out of order
just on 9/11 ? Was the plane that came down in Pennsylvania
really shot down?
At the end Avery comes to a damaging conclusion: Not Al Quaida is
responsible for the attacks, but a powerhungry elite in the
center of american power.
This is not a new assumption and it will also not be proven by
this film.
But nevertheless the film, which is available online
(www.loosechange911.com) and on DVD has been seen by 10 Million
people up to now.
Berliner Zeitung, 01.08.2006
August, 2nd
KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER
POLITICS
Was it really an airplane?
Two young Americans cause a furor in the internet
community. They try to proof , that the US government was behind
tke attacks of 9/11.
Why in the days before the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon an
unusual amount of stock options were put on American Airlines
speculating on shortly falling stock?
Was it only a coincidence , that less than a week before the
attacks the Twin Towers were insured for billions and the
contract included terror attacks?
And most important: When you look at the front of the Pentagon,
after the impact of AA77, then it becomes clear that the hole
could not have been caused by a Jet with a wingspan of more than
30 meters.
Has not really a missile impacted there?
Has the american government maybe lied to the american public
about the real events behind 9/11?
This questions and more are asked in a documentary of the events
of 9/11 , which since the end of May
cause a lot of discussion on the internet. More than 10 million
times the 1hr 24min long film was
watched on Video Google, the homepage www.loosechange911.com gets
20000 hits per day, 50000 DVDs were sold.
Two boys from Oneonta
the enormous response proofs: A few open questions of 9/11, thats
how the americans call this day,
questions which are not even fully answered in the official
congressional investigation cause alot of support for the
conspiracy theorists and their crude assumptions.
42% of the americans believe according to recent polls that the
official investigation suppressed important evidence. Especially
many young people under the age of 30 believe that US politicians
had forewarnings of the events.
Dylan Avery is only 22 years old and lives in Oneonta (13000
inhabitants) in New York State.
Together with his friend Korey Rowe who is a year older he
compiled the documentary from public available material. 6000$
they invested into the research. For the makers of "Loose
Change" - which stands here for slow change of public
perception -it is clear, who where the people behind 9/11.
Their own government had finally their way to accomplish what
they wanted, with the support of the
frightened voters: to drive out the Taliban from Afghanistan and
most important the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the occupation
of Iraq.
Around this mindboggling speculation a lively discussion
developed on the internet.
Screwloosechange.blogspot.com is attacking these theories. In at
least 37 points the young men from Oneonta make claims that are
refuted long ago - for example the fable about a missile at the
Pentagon.
The filmmakers would have quoted from News agency and TV reports,
that later on were taken back by the agencies, claiming they
originally came out because they could not check the stories in
the initial chaos.
The internet editorial department of the magazine "Popular
Mechanics" collected in lenghty process
the dossier "9/11 - debunking the myth" and disproves
among other the always repeated claim that
burning kerosine alne would have not been sufficiant to make the
"Twin Towers" collapse.
Jim Meigs the chief editor resumes: "Healthy skepticism is
important, but in many cases it has developed into unhealty
paranoia."
www.loosechange911.com
www.popularmechanics.com
„Loose Change“
Ein Internetfilm über 911 bricht alle Rekorde - FAZ.NET - Politik
Article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Sunday edition
30.7.2006
Mainstream liberal conservative german Newspaper
same article in Spiegel magazin ( published with permission from Frankfurter Allgemeine)
here a translation of the article in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine:
„Loose Change“
Internetfilm breaks all records.
It was a depressing image : A wide open hole in
the front of the Pentagon, following the attacks on
9/11, the symbol of american strenght punctured, But in the
Internet documentary "Loose Change" the
hole in the Pentagon becomes even more depressing, because the
film explains quite plausible, that a
plane can`t cause a hole like that.
Should it be possible, that the government lied and the hole
itself really was the result of a self
inflicted attack with a missile? Unbelievable.
There were many unfounded conspiracy theories about the
involvement of the Bush government in 9/11,
but also many unanswered questions - but until now very few were
presented in such an insistent way.
"More than a fictive story."
Who profited on 9/11?
The video appears a time, when there is a growing demand in the
US for a further investigation into
the events of 9/11. Only on Google more than 10 million watched
the video.
The website www.loosechange911.com gets more than 20000 hit per
day and even "Vanity Fair" praised the
homemade video in a long article.
The filmmaker himself, Dylan Avery who is 22 years by now and
lives in Oneonta in New York State,
three years ago just wanted to do some research a some fiction
story about 9/11.
The plot should be very simple: he and his courageous friends
found out that 9/11 was instigated by
the US government. "During the research it became more
obvious that this was more than fiction.
So in the process of 2 years, with more and more information, the
ficional movie developed into a
documentary.", Avery writes on his homepage. For the first
edition of the film Avery invested 2000$
into a computer and a video cutting program. Right now he and his
22 year old producer Korey Rowe are
negotiating with big movie studios about the new version of
"Loose Change" due to come out on the 5th
anniversary of 9/11 this year.
"It is the Kennedy assasination of our generation."
What is special about this video documentary might be that is has
no secrets. The film is a collage of
freely available documents in the public domain, excerpts of TV
reports and interviews, quotings of
government sources and eyewitness reports. All this is presented
in a kind of MTV style, many
crossfadings, fast cuts and a permanent carpet of music, created
by friends of Avery.
With this collage the film wants to ask questions: What was
causing the explosions that eyewitnesses
report about, shortly after the planes hit the Twin Towers? Why
was Ground Zero not sealed off as a
site of crime? And who profited on 9/11?
The way in which these questions are presented, reminds sometimes
of Michael Moore`s style, but
right on top of the film`s internet page the visitors are
encouraged not to take facts for granted
without verifying them, everyone should research for himself.
Some visitors accuse Avery to push theories, hardcore conspiracy
theoriests claim he himself is part
of a CIA campaign. But Averys information campaign wants nothing
else than to invoke questioning the
government and the media. Within the internet community he has
become the representative for a whole
generation, for whom the most dramatic event in their lifetime
was 9/11.
"This is the Kennedy murder of our generation." The
filmmakers count on the assumption that the 9/11
case will develop into "the second american revolution"
from a grassroot level.
Even if it might be still far off from there: the further
"Loose Change" spreads out on the internet,
the louder the questions will get, at least those never answered
questions directed to the american
government.
Die Presse 31.07.06
325.000 daily readers
Vienna Austria
Internet Film breaks all records
The movie "Loose Change" deals with the conspiracy
theories that evolve around the events of 9/11 and hits the nerve
of a generation "Loose Change" foremost consists of a
cleverly done montage of filmclips freely available in the public
domain.
A new movie, produced by Dylan Avery alone, right now is very
much discussed in the internet community: meticulously he is
analysing the inconsistencies that accured around 9/11.
In this way he is hitting the nerve of a whole generation, for
9/11 was a very important event in their live, they view the
official explanation of 9/11 very sceptical.
Averys film is in no way polemically promoting conspiracies
theories, but instead he is comparing statements of politicians,
eyewitnesses and media reports.
And these statements not only show a lot of contradictions and
this makes the movie at the same time so interesting.
The filmmaker, who did produce the film on a shoestring budget on
his own computer, does not come to any "real"
conclusions, but wants to inspire the viewers to think for
themselves, not to believe everything what they are told.
An unexpected success story.
The film is available on the internet or one can mailorder a DVD.
One can watch it easily online at Video Google, which many
viewers did.
So many that the film hit the Toplist and became the mostly
viewed film.
follows an article in the "Welt" on July 29
--- reads similar on the quoted facts, but claims the single
facts to be connected in a
propaganda style manner by the filmmakers.--------------
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/07/29/978203.html
http://www.bushtrash.com/911de/300706faz.htm
Article in Norways Dagbladet August 3, 2006
www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2006/08/03/472923.html
and on August, 4 an article in the Rheinische Post - decribing the history and the success of the film,
which is produced in a slick and fast MTV style. Asking many questions - laving thee viewer to think for
himself to come to conclusions. Plan to go for the big screens starting on 9/11 this year.
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/multimedia/sonstiges/345844
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