The heart of Project Rebirth is six 35mm time-lapse motion picture cameras, situated around the site, each shooting one frame of film every five minutes, 24 hours a day. Running full-time since the six-month anniversary of the attacks, these cameras will each capture 244 frames a day until the reconstruction is completed.
Time-lapse technology (the same technique used in nature films to depict the blossoming of a flower in a matter of seconds) will ultimately enable the multi-year process of rebuilding and rebirth to unfold before our eyes in less than 20 minutes.
The time-lapse footage of the buildings rising will be intercut with the workers, allowing audiences to experience our rebuilding and rebirth, through the sheer effort and determination of those whose hands, muscles, and minds represent the country's effort.
At the end of the project's completion, we will have compressed roughly ten years of film footage into a 60-minute film.
See the trailer of the film in progress and more at: Project Rebirth . org
