Georges Bataille one of the theorists of surrealism, assisted Benjamin in his role as librarian of the Bibliotech National in Paris. He hid Benjamin's work study files among the book stacks before the NAZI's reached Paris.
Baudelaire despised the technocracy of the photograph - he thought it would erase art. It is more than ironic that then that the place where the 'Impressionists' had their first exhibition was Nadar's photographic studio. The film explore this and other oddnesses.
Bertold Brecht refused to meet Benjamin at first but later became part of Brecht circle in Berlin and their time in exile.
1924 The first radio tower in Moscow Three years later Benjamin would be broadcasting from Berlin and collaborating with Brecht.
Publicity outline on the work and afterlife of Walter Benjamin his meaning for us today in our age of high technology and the fruition of his theory the Work of Art in The Age of Technological Reproducability.
Paris and The Arcades (Les Halles) plus Moscow's Revolutionary Montage brought together.
Photo Montage by Sacha Stone for one of Benjamin's books.
Naples Arcade Benjamin was in the city in 1924 were he met Ajsa Lacis on Capri.