Safety First

Safety First explores the indirect effects of 9-11 on our lives after entering an airport or traveling at ten thousand feet. In different episodes stories are told of people who are screened for hours in interrogation rooms, dragged from air planes and held in jail for days before they are told it was all based on a mistake. Extreme times demand extreme measures. Safety First illustrates the collateral damage of extreme measures and shows that people under these circumstances are not always who they say they are.

Robert Oey (1966) is a documentary filmmaker and has directed films such as Toxic (1999), What's Eating Serbia (2002), Wonderland (2004) and The Swimmers (2007). Robert Oey is also a still photographer and currently working on a photobook on Haiti.

 

Camera and sound: Robert Oey

Editing: Chris van Oers

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