IF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW

Austria 2024
A Film by Karl Wratschko
Shooting format: Slide and Super8 film
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Screening format: 16mm & DCP, silent, b/w and colour

A cinematic miniature about emigration and work. The search for traces focuses on the seven years of emigration (1933-1940) that Walter Benjamin spent in Paris. During this time he tried to complete his philosophical and literary project, "The Arcades Project ". It will remain a fragment.