This short film employs an anonymous hotline to elevate the voices beneath Vermont’s F-35 flight path, the first urban residents to live with one of the military’s most controversial weapons systems overhead.
Tranquil scenes of unassuming neighborhoods near Burlington International Airport are juxtaposed with voicemails of the unheard, those drowned out by the ear-shattering “sound of freedom.” Exploring the relationship between picturesque residential areas and the deafening fighter jets overhead, Jet Line is a poetic portrait of a community plagued by war machines, documenting untenable conditions in a small city once voted one of the best places to live in America.
Literally story of my life.
Bought this house in 2019. It’s near-ish to an airport and Air Force base, but the noise was tolerable even when both were at their busiest. It’s something I paid particular attention to when I was doing my walk throughs.
After closing / moving in, mid- 2020 comes around, and the AFB gets some kind of deal setup to do live re-fuelings (the aircraft don’t shut down their engines while they get refuled). Since then, it’s been a constant, deafening drone of military aircraft 24/7. It never ends.
The governor was touting it as good for the state and that nearby residents should just deal with it.
Uh, yeah, thanks.