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The work explores the relationship between film and architecture, linking a US military test structure with studio sets of 1920s German expressionist film. The work was premiered at the <a href="http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/" target="_blank">Chisenhale Gallery</a> in London in november 2006.</p> <p>From the work description:</p> <i><p>In 1943 the US military commissioned émigré modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn and Hollywood studio RKO to design and build a replica Berlin housing estate in the Utah desert to test incendiary bombs eventually deployed in the air raids on Dresden and Berlin. Behr s interest lies in the performative nature of the building, embodied in its cultural/geographical displacement and its function of repeatedly performing its own destruction.</p> <p>Borrowing its title from the early expressionist film House Without a Door (1914), which has no surviving print, the work fictionalises the now inaccessible interior of this building through a set of references to 1920s German expressionist films, including Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926) and Dr. Mabuse (F. Lang, 1922). These references reflect Mendelsohn s own relation to expressionist theatre, Weimar filmmakers and the proximity of the test site to an actual village in Utah called  Faust .</p></i> <br /> <h2>LISTEN:</h2> Excerpt 1. <a href="../audio/hwoad_01.mp3"><b>[ DOWNLOAD MP3 ]</b></a><br /> <script language="JavaScript" src="../audio/audio-player.js"></script> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="../audio/player.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&amp;soundFile=../audio/hwoad_01.mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object><br /><br /> Excerpt 2. <a href="../audio/hwoad_02.mp3"><b>[ DOWNLOAD MP3 ]</b></a><br /> <script language="JavaScript" src="../audio/audio-player.js"></script> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer2" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="../audio/player.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=2&amp;soundFile=../audio/hwoad_02.mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object><br /><br /> Excerpt 3. <a href="../audio/hwoad_03.mp3"><b>[ DOWNLOAD MP3 ]</b></a><br /> <script language="JavaScript" src="../audio/audio-player.js"></script> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer3" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="../audio/player.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=3&amp;soundFile=../audio/hwoad_03.mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object><br /><br /> Excerpt 4. <a href="../audio/hwoad_04.mp3"><b>[ DOWNLOAD MP3 ]</b></a><br /> <script language="JavaScript" src="../audio/audio-player.js"></script> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="../audio/player.swf" id="audioplayer4" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="../audio/player.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=4&amp;soundFile=../audio/hwoad_04.mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> <a href="../works.html"><img src="../gfx_etc/back_button_06.gif" border="0" alt="BACK" /></a><br /><br /> <!-- PANEL WIDTH END --> </td> </table> </body> </html>