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Alarm Notes

+ Q&A with Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin

Locations associated with the life of sound recordist and bird song documentarian Ludwig Koch, and his indirect links to the Berlin Reichstag fire, are mapped in a powerful, new artist’s documentary.

  • Directors

    Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin

  • UK 2025. 123min. Total running time 150min

  • Digital

Kennedy and Wiblin’s radical new artist’s documentary returns to locations associated with the 1933 Reichstag fire – which cemented Nazi rule – and the experiences of German Jewish pioneer birdsong recordist Ludwig Koch, who escaped Berlin and latterly joined the BBC. Sound (including the use of Koch’s recordings) and image assume dynamic relationships within forensic accounts of persecution and creative endeavour, foregrounding place and the legacies of history.

Presented in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.

Open City Documentary Festival