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Here Died All Cardinals

Anger and destructiveness is the result of an unlived life.

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Here Died All Cardinals

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Here Died All Cardinals

Here Died All Cardinals

Here Died All Cardinals

Anger and destructiveness is the result of an unlived life.

Anger and destructiveness is the result of an unlived life.

Anger and destructiveness is the result of an unlived life.

Anger and destructiveness is the result of an unlived life.

Damien Arakelyan
Damien Arakelyan
Damien Arakelyan
Damien Arakelyan
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OUR STORY

 The events of September 11, 2001 effected people in different ways throughout the world. For many, it was a horrific attack on innocents and the response was empathy, despair and sometimes anger.

For others, the repeated images of the falling towers of the World Trade Center also evoked awe and fascination. Many had the desire to repeatedly watch documentary footage and read about the attack. 

Over the years, some people have confessed to an obsessive pleasure in watching the towers fall again and again. This film explores how the events of 9/11 uncovered some contradictory emotions toward the U.S. and how love, hate, anger and resentment toward the world’s superpower complicated the emotional fallout of what happened on that day.


The film tells the story of a child whose developing anger and resentment toward his
neglectful parents leads him to fantasize about their demise. His parents’ failure to provide love, security and individual freedom is a metaphor for the neglectful actions and policies of the U.S. and the child’s fleeting desire to punish his parents is equated with the profoundly disturbing pleasure that some people feel when revisiting the events of 9/11.

The Story

Armen is a nine-year-old boy who wakes up in a run-down New York City apartment. His parents are divorced and today his mother is in a hurry to get to an audition. As she hastily prepares to leave, she tells Armen to stay home, do his homework, wash the dishes, and wait for his father’s call.
His father works in the World Trade Center. Both parents encourage his effort to prevent birds from hitting the apartment building by cutting colorful bird silhouettes for the windows. But at the same time, neither of his parents have a real connection with their son.

Left alone in the apartment and awaiting his father’s call, Armen grows more and more resentful.  He begins to rebel and races through his homework, breaks a dirty dish, and sticks his tongue out at his mother’s picture of Jesus. When he tries to call his father, the answer he receives is from an automated machine.

Looking out his window at the Twin Towers, Armen sees a girl playing hopscotch down on the street. He makes a connection with her by releasing a paper plane out the window. The two children proceed to make faces and smile at each other for a while, and the little girl finally invites Armen to come down to play. But then his father calls. Armen answers the phone to hear his father tell him that he can’t pick him up today. Disappointed, Armen returns to the window and the girl is gone.


In his resentment, Armen looks at the Twin Towers and imagines his paper plane heading toward them.
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