A film by Mischa Twitchin and Britt Hatzius
(The full film, in addition to the soundtracks presented here, will be available soon.)
Sources:
Reading Benjamin
Text sources:
Walter Benjamin: "On the Concept of History, VIII" (tr. Harry Zohn) & "The Work of Art in the Age of Reproducibility:
Epilogue" (tr. Harry Zohn & Edmund Jephcott)
Music sources:
César Franck: Symphony in D-minor, 1st Movement
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler
(concert recording, Vienna, 28.01.1945)
Anton Karas: The Third Man Theme (film recording, 1949)
Voices:
Frank Desiderio (Flight Engineer, USAF)
Joseph Cotton & Orson Welles (from The Third Man)
Reading Clausewitz
Text sources:
Walter Benjamin: "Critique of Violence" (tr. Edmund Jephcott)
Michel Foucault: "Lecture at the Collège de France", 07.01.76 (tr. David Macey)
Music sources:
Anton Karas: The Third Man theme (film and performance recordings, 1949 & 1952)
Johann Strauss: Frühlingsstimmen, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Clemens Krauss (disc recording, 1940)
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, Vienna Sate Opera, cond. Hans Knappertsbusch (performance recording, 1.12.1943)
Voices:
Joseph Cotton, Carol Reed & Orson Welles (from The Third Man)
Adolf Hitler (speech in Vienna, recorded 09.04.1938)
Franz Engel & Fritz Wiesenthal: Hallo! Hier Radio Wien (disc recording, 1936)
Max Brod: Der Theaterausrufer (disc recording,1928)