Scott calls it “thorough, understated and altogether enthralling.” It has just opened in New York, and will be hitting theaters across the country over the next month. His 2002 book “To Reach the Clouds” is a memoir of his World Trade Center experience.Īnd joining us from New York City is James Marsh, director of the new documentary “Man on Wire.” It won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Now 58, he continues to perform and lecture and write. In his youth, he planned and executed a number of daring, unsanctioned wire walks - between the towers of Notre Dame in Paris, off the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia, and between the 110-story World Trade Center towers. Joining us from Shokan, New York, is Philippe Petit, world renowned wire-walker. This Hour, On Point: Philippe Petit and a new documentary about his legendary New York performance, “Man on Wire.” But in a way, that brings only more mystery and awe to it. That absence has changed the context and meaning of Petit’s story. Now, of course, the towers are gone - since 9/11, just a memory above Ground Zero. ![]() One hundred and ten stories above the streets far below, 24-year-old Frenchman Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire secretly pulled between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and for 45 minutes, as police raged and pedestrians looked on dumbfounded, danced in the sky. In the early morning light of August 7, 1974, an almost unbelievable thing happened in the skies above lower Manhattan. Philippe Petit on his 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. The lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the Smith College Libraries and the Lecture Committee.Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 14 years old. He has been the subject of numerous films and is the author of five books, including “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers.” In the 30 years since, Petit has performed around the world, including such places as Paris, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Jerusalem and New York City. He spent an hour on that August morning alternately walking, jumping, dancing and lying down on the high wire. In 1974, Petit strung a wire between the roofs, a quarter mile above the sidewalk, and crossed eight times. The author had seen Philipe Petit perform on the streets of New York City decades earlier and felt that a book about his signature feat would be a fitting tribute to the Twin Towers. 11 attack as a way of processing the shock and trauma of the event. Tower -5, 1 Kharadi, opp, EON Free Zone MIDC, Knowledge Park Pune, Maharashtra 411014. ![]() Gerstein began writing it on the day of the Sept. “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,” won the prestigious Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association in 2004 for the most distinguished American picture book for children. His books range widely in subject from contemporary fantasy and biblical retellings to biography. More than 40 titles to his name, including tomes for adolescents and adults. Gerstein began illustrating and writing children’s books in 1971 and now has The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing in the Neilson Library Browsing Room. Petit and author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein will recall that amazing feat at a lecture titled “Drawing a Line, Walking a Wire” in the Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-French high wire artist Philippe Petit and the children’s book writer who chronicled Petit’s walk between the rooftops of the Twin Towers will appear together at Smith College at 7:30 p.m. Man Who Walked Twin Towers Tightrope, Author/Illustrator, to Lecture at SmithĮditor's note: For a high-res image of the cover of Gerstein's book "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers " e-mail Marti Hobbes.
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