Joseph Culp is a Santa Monica/Los Angeles based actor. He’s an acting teacher as well as a producer.
We combined out resources in order to make this movie. By we, I mean my wife Jodie, myself and Joseph. We kind of pooled our resources together including savings and credit cards, whatever we had, just because we did not want to represent any political groups. We did not want any outside influence. The making of this movie was a purely independent production with a very limited budget. However, I did feel it was necessary to talk about this issue as soon as possible.
We went straight into self distribution, meaning we simultaneously released the movie on DVD and started showing it theatrically so that people could have full access to the movie.
You can order the video from our web site, reflectingpoolfilm.com. You can go to our web site to find out where the next screening will be. A lot of people are asking us for screeners that they can project in their own communities. We have a standing offer for anyone who’s involved in honest politics that they can screen the movie at any time or in any place with no licensing. We just want to make it as accessible as possible.
Bonanno: You answered my next question which was, “How did you come to meet Joseph Culp?” You brought to mind another question, however.
You presented this to your class, you said. How was the content or the premise of the movie received by your class?
Kupsc: …by my class? Well Joseph was the first person to have read it. He was not well informed of other possibilities of what may have happened. He had some initial reservations about the 19 hijackers, but he never pursued it any further. He went on with his life, went shopping, took care of the family. He has two kids and a beautiful wife. They were just going about their business like most Americans.
When we started workshopping the script in class, he started having questions and started to go about researching and verifying what I was offering. Eventually, he educated himself adequately enough to realize that there is, indeed, something nefarious about the official version of 9/11 and what happened that day. In the process of working with me on the script, he became a true believer of some other possibilities which we try to explore in “The Reflecting Pool”.
As far as the other members are concerned, several people in the group ended up acting in the film; most prominently Lisa Black, who plays the editor of the fictional Centinal magazine which commissions the article about 9/11.
Bonanno: She does a wonderful job, by the way.
Kupsc: Yes, she’s actually an acting professor in an upstate New York college. She’s been a professional actress all her life. All the actors in the film were professional actors with maybe one exception.
We tried to make it as professional as we could under our limited budget restrictions.
Bonanno: I have one more sort of personal question. In his book, The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin presents 8 different degrees of conceivable US complicity in the events of 9/11. They start with the premise that the Bush administration knew nothing about it, they had no idea it was going to happen, but, while it happened, they thought they’d take advantage of it by making it a basis for invading Iraq. There were degrees between that and the ultimate degree, which, of course, was that they were complicit in making it happen.
If you don’t mind sharing this with us, is there a place that you personally fit in those degrees of complicity?
Kupsc: I have my personal views on what happened that day. My personal views, however, are firmly rooted in science and research and academic papers. You mention David Ray Griffin. There’s also Professor Steven Jones, who has been investigating the debris of WTC ground zero. He found an ounce of explosives in the debris which he examined. He came up with certain theories which are being “disproved” by the mainstream media.
As recently as yesterday, the 21st of August, the NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, finally decided to release their report on the collapse of Building 7 after 7 years, in which they basically state, officially, that, for the first time in the history of modern architecture a steel framed building collapsed due to a fire from a thermal explosion. The report, which I just read, the NIST report – and I’m not a scientist, but, just by reading the report, I can see so many holes, inconsistencies, contradictions and flat out denials of fact. This just makes me believe that the building collapsed due to controlled demolition. There’s really no other explanation.
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