This film, shot in September and October of last year and released on the one-month anniversary of the nascent Occupy Movement, is a meditation on life in Zuccotti Park, rechristened Liberty Square by its occupiers. Amidst the bodies and the marches and the sleeping bags and the generators and the police raids was an underlying feeling of possibility that glued the New York occupiers together. This feeling of hope and inspiration in the air throughout those early days was palpable. Filmmaker Ed David managed to capture this swirl of emotions with his methodically moving camera and eye for color.
"There were two goals for the film,” David said. “The subtle one was to establish the emotional catharsis I felt walking in Zuccotti Park, and that everyone was coming together and not being passive anymore; the sublime feeling of direct democracy, and how my sadness for the modern world faded as I joined in the OWS movement. The second goal was to show people the beginning waves of the Occupy movement. We shot with a camera dolly to make a calm, peaceful, serene take on the Square.”
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