98 MINUTES | MFA SEPT 11 + 15-17

Finishing up an assignment in San Diego on September 11, 2001, documentary filmmaker Nina Davenport decided not to return at once to her Manhattan apartment but instead to drive cross-country to interview her fellow Americans. The back stories of her subjects prove far more fascinating than their responses (or lack thereof) to a nightmare that was rapidly being recast into chauvinist bombast by the media and the politicians. As in her debut, Hello Photo, Davenport shows a knack for discerning the exotic, the surreal, and the poignant beneath the seemingly banal.