The Bridge

Director: Eric Steel

November 25, 2010 | 6.00 pm
Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai

The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel that tells the stories of a handful of individuals who committed suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year looking carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, they documented close to two dozen suicides, and many of the near fatal movements that took place. This powerful imagery is accompanied by incredibly frank, often heart-wrenching interviews with families, friends, witnesses and several of the surviving attempters. The film was inspired by an article entitled ‘Jumpers, written by Tad Friend which appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2003.