![]() ![]() ![]() With some of the suicides that made it into the film - which inserts this harrowing footage amid interviews with friends and family of the deceased - the camera jerks downward, following the jumper along the four-second, 250-foot fall. A few cameras were fixed others were continuously manned and fitted with telephoto lenses. Some of them are the unwitting stars of a disturbing documentary called "The Bridge." Having drawn both fire and praise when it screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival last spring, it opens at the IFC Center this Friday.Īiming to chronicle a year in the life of a suicide magnet, the film's director, Eric Steel, and his crew embarked on a marathon deathwatch: they staked out the bridge from sunrise to sunset every day from Jan. STEVE IRWIN, the Crocodile Hunter, who perished last month of a stingray stab, once declared, "If I'm going to die, I want it filmed." (He got his wish.) It's doubtful that any of the two dozen people who jumped to their deaths off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 ever issued such a request, but they were filmed all the same. ![]()
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