![]() "It's creepy," agreed San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, also a member of the district board. "It's just a horrible thing to be taking pictures of." "A guy this duplicitous - there must be a way to yank that stuff away from him," said Marin County Supervisor Hal Brown, a member of the bridge district's board. "Are we angry? Absolutely," said bridge district spokeswoman Mary Currie. Steel says his goal is to "allow us to see into the most impenetrable corners of the human mind and challenge us to think and talk about suicide in profoundly different ways." Now, however, Steel has revealed in an e-mail to bridge officials that the cameras - which were operating almost continuously during daylight hours for all of 2004 - filmed most of the 19 jumpers who went off the bridge last year plus a number of attempted suicides.Īpparently, that was the point all along. That's how he got the Golden Gate National Recreation Area's permission to set up cameras on parkland overlooking Fort Point. ![]() Golden Gate Bridge officials are seething that a moviemaker who told them he was working on a "day in the life" project about the landmark was, in fact, capturing people on film as they jumped to their deaths.Įric Steel initially told officials he planned to spend a year filming the "powerful and spectacular interaction between the monument and nature" and that his work was to be the first in a series of documentaries about national monuments such as the St. , Film captures suicides on Golden Gate Bridge / Angry officials say moviemaker misled them, , Golden Gate Bridge jump survivor talks about mental illness 'the bridge' - director eric steel interview, part 2 - about 6 minutes.ġ2.09.15: I Jumped Off The Golden Gate Bridge 'the bridge' - director eric steel interview, part 1 - 6 minutes. The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge Lengthy footage of the moments leading up to and including the suicides, soĭiscretion is advised for sensitive viewers. In someone they thought was going to jump, the documentary still includes The camera crew worked with a set of guidelines, including that they would call Mental disturbance, and extreme isolation and connection with society. The Golden Gate into a metaphor for a bridge between life and death, sanity and The shots of the bridge wreathed in fog turn Most questions remain unanswered, turning on The documentary struggles to understand their illness while illuminating theĪnger and hurt of their loved ones. Illness, including severe depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorders, and The documentary's primary subjects all struggled with mental Try to explain what led these people to want to kill themselves, especially at He also tracked down and interviewed the friends, family members, andĮyewitnesses to further recreate the events leading up to the incident and to To leap off the famed structure, the site of more suicides than anywhere else in Golden Gate Bridge over the course of 2004 to capture the people who attempted Written by Tad Friend, director Eric Steel decided to train cameras on the Independent film channel: Inspired by a New Yorker story, " Jumpers", The #1 suicide draw in the usa, #2 in the world. The golden gate bridge san francisco, california
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