Man On A Wire

Flow in it’s supreme version – challenging – Yes – focused – Yes –

IN FLOW – definitely!

Man on Wire is a 2008 British-American biographical documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center. It is based on Petit’s book, To Reach the Clouds, released in paperback with the title Man on Wire. The title of the film is taken from the police report that led to the arrest (and later release) of Petit, whose performance had lasted for almost one hour. The film is crafted like a heist film, presenting rare footage of the preparations for the event and still photographs of the walk, alongside re-enactments (with Paul McGill as the young Petit) and present-day interviews with the participants, including Barry Greenhouse, an insurance executive who served as the inside man.[4]

Man on Wire competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition[5] at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.[6] In February 2009, the film won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Published on Nov 11, 2014

Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit was an artist who answered first and foremost to the demands of his craft—not only on the high wire, but also as a street juggler, lecturer, timber framer, and writer. Even 40 years after his breathtaking, career-defining work, Petit is no less a rebel. He shares his outlaw perspective (and encourages ours) in his 10th book, “Creativity: The Perfect Crime,” a new manifesto for the imagination from the master of the impossible. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune’s film critic, joins Petit for a conversation.