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Back in 2001/2002, I went to a series of seminars hosted by the artist Natalie Jeremijenko. One of the presenting artists had footage of the Pentagon attack, taken from a camera he had set up on the Potomac River. He refused to give anyone else access to it. "I want to think about how to best present this footage." he said. I still have never seen that footage again to this day, and the selfishness makes me angry whenever I think of it.

[napier]

Asked them about it recently? If not, please do.

[rendall]

It was 20 years ago. Maybe someone documented that seminar, and can look up who the presenting artist was, but I sure didn't.

[GnarfGnarf]

Could simply have been a hoax, to attract attention. (Having the video, I mean, not the attack).

[ectopod]

What's the hoax? OP has seen the video.

[GnarfGnarf]

The video may be fake. Jeremijenko, the "artist", withholds it to avoid detailed examination.

[rendall]

I really was not clear, sorry. Nathalie Jeremijenko was not the artist who had the video. She hosted a seminar where a sequence of artists gave talks. One of these artists presented that video at the seminar.

I really don't see how it could have been a hoax. Computer art and animation was my thing at the time, and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed a fake. 20 years ago, computer animation was pretty good, but it was a rare few who could make truly realistic renders and composit them into recorded video. Not that guy, for sure.

[rendall]

Natalie Jeremijenko hosted the seminar, but was not the artist who played the video. Yes, I saw the video. IIRC, it showed the plane passing low over the Potomac seconds before it hit the Pentagon, just out of frame. I don't see how that could have been a hoax.

[spiderice]

Have they? It isn’t clear to me if they’ve seen it or just heard that it exists

[CincinnatiMan]

> I still have never seen that footage again to this day

I took the "again" to mean they've seen it atleast once.

[rendall]

Sorry, I tried to be clear. I did see the video. The artist had it online behind a password-protected web page. He went to some URL at his own site, put in a name and password, and played the video. Some of us asked him how we could see the video again, and that's when he told us that it wasn't "public", that he wanted to hold onto it until he could figure out how to best present it or whatever-the-fuck ever.