Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Huddleston Hall
You are invited to join us to an exclusive Q&A session with celebrated French-American filmmakers Jules and Gédéon Naudet. This is a unique opportunity to gain insight into their creative process, discuss their notable works, and explore the landscape of modern documentary.
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Center for the Humanities will host an interactive session where you can engage directly with the filmmakers. Please, bring your students; this is their chance to ask about artistic influences, the themes in their work, and the experience of bringing their cinematic visions to life.
Event Details:
- Date: 25 September 2025
- Time: 9:30 – 11:00
- Location: Huddleston Hall, Sunroom
- About the Filmmakers:
- The French brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet, residents of the United States since 1989 and American citizens since 1999, were in New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks to film a documentary on members of the Engine 7, Ladder 1 firehouse in Lower Manhattan.
- Jules captured the clearest footage of the first airplane, American Airlines Flight 11, hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center when he rode with Battalion 1 to investigate a suspected gas leak in a storm drain at the intersection of Church and Lispenard streets while filming a documentary about the FDNY. The footage shot in 2001 was made into their 2002 documentary 9/11. The video camera that Jules was using that captured Flight 11 crashing into the World Trade Center is now on display in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
