Behind Blue Sky Documentary Film, 50 minutes, color, sound, 2021 Filmed and Edited by Jesse Bonnell Directed by Armand Volkas in collaboration
"Behind Blue Sky", a film devised through NYU Steinhardt’s Drama Therapy program, weaves personal and fictionalized narratives to spotlight the relationship between 9/11 and past and present struggles for racial and social justice. What does 9/11 mean to New York City? And what are the parallels between the lasting scars inflicted on the city 20 years ago and the collective trauma borne from the pandemic and our nation’s reckoning with the need for racial and social justice today?
These are some of the questions being explored by Behind Blue Sky, a film and theater response to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, devised by a BIPOC ensemble of drama therapists and theater artists and produced by NYU Steinhardt’s Drama Therapy program.