Songs of War: Music as a Weapon (2010)
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.
Director: Tristan Chytroschek
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Christopher Cerf as Presenter |
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Thomas Keenan as Human Rights Project, Bard College, New York |
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Chris Arendt as Former Guard, Guantanamo Bay |
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Herb Friedman as Psychological Operations Expert, US Army |
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Mike Ritz as Former Interrogator, US Army |
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Nathalie Gosselin as Music Psychologist, Université de Montréal |
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Moazzam Begg as Former Detainee, Guantanamo Bay And Bagram |
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Morag Josephine Grant as Musicologist, University Of Göttingen |
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Mike Luce as Drowning Pool |
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C.J. Pierce as Drowning Pool |
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Vahan Simidian II as CEO, HPV Technologies |
| Directing | Tristan Chytroschek | Director |
| Editing | Norik Stepanjan | Editor |
| Sound | Ole Förster | Sound Engineer |
| Crew | Susanne Mertens | Commissioning Editor |
| Editing | Karl-Heinz Satzger | Editor |
| Sound | George Parashakis | Sound Engineer |
| Camera | Knut Sodemann | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Max Kielhauser | Sound Engineer |
| Camera | Christian Eichenauer | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Igor Martinović | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Bernhard Wagner | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Alexander Joksimovic | Sound Engineer |
| Art | Michael Bamber | Art Direction |
