Lower Manhattan shortly after Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001

9/11: What bystanders saw

On September 10, 2001, artist Monika Bravo set up her camera on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center to capture a storm sweeping across Manhattan. Filmed over seven hours as a timelapse, the work became the last moving images recorded from inside the Twin Towers before the attacks the next morning. The piece “Uno nunca muere la víspera” (“You never die the day before you’re meant to”) stands today as a powerful visual record of a city on the eve of irreversible change. Watch the storm roll i