Songs of War: Music as a Weapon
Music is a Weapon
2010 | 52m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Tristan Chytroschek |
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| Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica at Taliban hideouts the principle is always the same: Aggressive sounds demoralise the enemy and whip the allies into a frenzy. In Songs of War, director Tristan Chytroschek explores the extraordinary harmony between music and violence. Sesame Street composer, Christopher Cerf, always wanted his music to be fun and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants to find out how this could happen. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 25, 2010 |
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| Director: | Tristan Chytroschek |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | guantanamo bay, torture |
| Production Companies | ARTE, ZDF, A&O Buero |
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Updated: Aug 04, 2024 Entered: May 11, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Christopher Cerf | Presenter |
| Thomas Keenan | Human Rights Project, Bard College, New York |
| Chris Arendt | Former Guard, Guantanamo Bay |
| Herb Friedman | Psychological Operations Expert, US Army |
| Mike Ritz | Former Interrogator, US Army |
| Nathalie Gosselin | Music Psychologist, Université de Montréal |
| Moazzam Begg | Former Detainee, Guantanamo Bay And Bagram |
| Morag Josephine Grant | Musicologist, University Of Göttingen |
| Mike Luce | Drowning Pool |
| C.J. Pierce | Drowning Pool |
| Vahan Simidian II | CEO, HPV Technologies |
| Name | Job |
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| Tristan Chytroschek | Director |
| Karl-Heinz Satzger | Editor |
| Norik Stepanjan | Editor |
| Ole Förster | Sound Engineer |
| Alexander Joksimovic | Sound Engineer |
| Max Kielhauser | Sound Engineer |
| Susanne Mertens | Commissioning Editor |
| Bernhard Wagner | Camera Operator |
| George Parashakis | Sound Engineer |
| Christian Eichenauer | Camera Operator |
| Igor Martinović | Camera Operator |
| Knut Sodemann | Camera Operator |
| Michael Bamber | Art Direction |
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