AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH: Reimagining Manhattan's Downtown With the participation of: Vito Acconci,Asymptote (Hani Rashid), Mel Chin, Della Valle + Bernheimer Design, FieldOperations (Stan Allen/James Corner), Hugh Hardy, Hariri + Hariri, CraigHodgetts, Steven Holl, Kennedy + Violich, LOT/EK (Giuseppe Lignani/AdaTolla),Office dA (Nader Tehrani/Monica Ponce de Leon), RoTo Architects (MichaelRotondi), SITE (James Wines/Denise Lee), Tod Williams/Billie Tsien and MaxProtetch. Produced and Directed by Michael BlackwoodProduced by Michael Blackwood Productions,Inc.Copyright: 200258 minutes50 international architects along with severalartists were invited by the Max Protetch gallery in NewYork to submit design proposals for a new World TradeCenter and memorial.The exhibition, entitled ''A New World Trade Center: DesignProposals'' opened four months after the attacks and attractedunparalleled crowds. Its intention was to contribute to the discussion byallowing artists and architects to freely reimagine the site. In the video 20architects participate, explaining their proposals and commenting on themeaning of the attack. ''After September 11th: Reimagining Manhattan'sDowntown'' gives insight into their creative thinking on design, theurbanism of downtown Manhattanand the political fallout following September 11th. Participants in the exhibition were: 1100 Architects, Raimund Abraham, VitoAcconci, Morris Adjmi, Marwan Al-Sayed, Allied Works Architecture, WilliamAlsop, Asymptote, Shigeru Ban, Carlos Brillembourg, Mel Chin, Preston ScottCohen, Coop Himmelblau, Della Valle and Bernheimer Design, Winka Dubbeldamof Archi-tectonics, Field Operations, Foreign Office Architects, JonathanFoster, Fox and Fowle, Joseph Giovannini and Rodrigo Monsalve, GluckmanMayner Architects, Alexander Gorlin Architects, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid,Hugh Hardy, Hariri and Hariri, Hodgetts + Fung, Steven Holl, Hans Hollein,Jakob + MacFarlane, Eytan Kaufman, Kennedy and Violich, Johannes Knesl, TomKovac, Krueck and Sexton, Daniel Libeskind, LO/TEK, Greg Lynn FORM, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Nathan McRae,Samuel Mockbee, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Ben Nicholson, NOX Architekten,Office dA, OCEAN north, Oosterhuis Associates, Frei Otto, Marjetica Potrc,RoTo Architects, Smith-Miller/Hawkinson, SITE, Paolo Soleri, Michael Sorkin,Barbara Stauffacher, Solomon and Nellie King Solomon, Towers of Light (JohnBennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Julian LeVerdiere, Paul Marantz, Paul Myoda,Richard Nash-Gould), Weiss/Manfredi, Tod Williams/Billie Tsien and MehrdadYazdani. Film distribution and description: MichaelBlackwood Productions Inc.251 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA