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For 33 days over two months, Barash reported alone to Lenox Hill.
A clip from Lenox Hill’s coronavirus episode.
It was like a huge, silent, invisible tsunami coming, Barash said.
Not knowing what to expect, I had to conduct myself precisely.
The first few days were horrifying because you just didnt know what to do.
You thought it was in the air.
You thought it was in the droplets.
You didnt want to touch anything.
You didnt touch elevators.
You were constantly putting on Purell or disinfecting and changing clothes.
You did what everybody else was doing, but times ten.
I was always thinking,How can I disinfect myself and clean myself and shower and clean my clothes?
Theyre not in a bunker hiding.It was very moving emotionally for me.
In others, he films as doctors inform families that their loved ones are going to pass.
At the beginning it was so scary, but he was so driven.
We felt it was important to show the behind-the-scenes of what the doctors were doing.
The episode serves as a historical document of the early days of a nation in shock.
Then it grows into this loneliness and this fear.
You dont know where its going.
How will our lives unfold?
The risks he took, they both agree, were worth it.
You cant go out to be a filmmaker only when its convenient, Barash said.
Its weird to say, but I was in my element.
This is where I find my story and its my retreat.
