The bridge / IFC presents an Easy There Tiger production ; produced and directed by Eric Steel ; executive producer, Alison Palmer Bourke, Evan Shapiro.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Steel, Eric, producer, director.

Bourke, Alison Palmer, producer.

Shapiro, Evan, producer.

Heffes, Alex, composer.

Friend, Tad.

Easy There Tiger, Inc., producer.

Independent Film Channel, producer.

Koch Lorber Films, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide.

Suicide victims.

Suicidal behavior.

Suicide--Prevention.

Suicide--Risk factors.

Suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.

Suicide--United States.

Suicide--California--San Francisco.

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.).

Cinéma vérité.

California--San Francisco.

California--San Francisco--Golden Gate Bridge.

United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Edition:

Widescreen.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Easy There Tiger, Inc. ; Port Washington, NY : Distributed by Koch Lorber Films, [2007]

Language Note:

In English with optional English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

System Details:

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, 2.0 Dolby Digital stereo ; enhanced for 16x9 television.

digital

optical

mixed

stereo

Dolby digital 2.0

Dolby digital 5.1

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

"In 2004, 24 people jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge. More people have chosen to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world."--End titles. What makes the suicides at the bridge so unusual is that they take place in broad daylight, in front of people in a busy place - unlike most suicides, which are enacted in extreme privacy. Filmmaker Eric Steel and his crew spent 2004 filming the bridge during daylight hours from two locations, grappling with the ethical question of when to alert authorities, and their responsibilities as observers. The film features interviews with the families and friends of some of the victims that year, as well as one person who changed his mind. Offering a glimpse into one of the darkest, most impenetrable corners of the human mind, the film also interrogates society's ability to blithely ignore the grim realities of depression, mental illness, and drug abuse that underly so many suicides. These are only some of the factors discussed by the film, common to the twenty four people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004, who are now linked together forever by a 4 second fall in an otherwise magically, mysteriously beautiful place.

Contents:

Common occurrence

Gene

Lisa

Family recounts

Wally & Mary Manikow

Photographer's perspective

Kevin Hines: A survivor's struggle

Process of deciding

David, Ruby and Jim

False romanticism

Hurt left behind

End credits.

Participant:

Commentators, Eric Geleynse, Chris Brown, Susan Ginwalla, Caroline Pressley, Rachel Marker, Tara Harrell, Lyle Smith, Dave Williams, Christina Koelling, the Figueroa family, Wally and Mary Manikow, Matt and Jen Rossi, Steve Meronek, Keith Glenn, Richard Waters, Kevin Hines, Pat Hines, Gordon Smith, Shelley Albar, Ginny Matthews.

Credits:

Director of photography, Peter McCandless ; editor, Sabine Krayenbühl ; music by Alex Heffes.

Notes:

Inspired by the article "Jumpers," written by Tad Friend, initially published in New Yorker magazine.

Special features: Short feature on the making of "The Bridge" (19 min.); Message from Kevin Hines (1 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Previews (9 min.).

Originally produced as an American documentary in 2005.

Related Work:

Friend, Tad. Jumpers.

ISBN:

141720138X

9781417201389

OCLC:

95219242

Publisher Number:

741952312291

KLF-DV-3122 Koch Lorber Films