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Kafka - Animated Shorts

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR

Drawing her inspiration from the short story of the same name, Lillqvist sets her story in the war-torn Sarajevo and relies on stories from fugitives, to win the Silver Bear for Short Film at the Berlin film festival.

Director: Katariina Lillqvist

Screenwriter: Katariina Lillqvist

Editor: Katariina Lillqvist

Country: Finland

Year: 1995

Running Time: 16'

No Dialogue

RIDER ON THE BUCKET

The first animated film of the trilogy Katariina Lillqvist based on short stories by Franz Kafka. A pioneering effort to marry cartoons with puppets, which boasts excellent direction and a nonconformist mood..

Original Title: Hiilisangolla Ratsastaja

Director: Katariina Lillqvist

Screenwriter: Katariina Lillqvist

DoP: Vladimir Malik

Editor: Katariina Lillqvist

Country: Finland

Year: 1992

Running Time: 8'

Language: Finnish

THE CHAMBER STOCK

Lillqvist finds in Minna Soukka the ideal set designer for her highly experimental films. Soukka paves the way for the depiction of cities that exist only in the imagination, constructs houses and rooms for the puppets and becomes a crucial influence for her Czech colleagues. strong

Original Title: Kamarihaikara

Director: Katariina Lillqvist

Screenwriter: Katariina Lillqvist

DoP: Vladimir Malik

Editor: Katariina Lillqvist

Country: Finland

Year: 1994

Running Time: 9'

No Dialogue

 

FRANZ KAFKA'S A COUNTRY DOCTOR

The Oscar-nominated director Koji Yamamura keeps the main structure of Kafka’s short story and presents an animated film with impressive designs that captivate the audience in a surreal universe of sadness and dynamism, visualizing the classic short story in a unique way.

Original Title: Kafuka: Inaka Isha 

Σκηνοθεσία: Kôji Yamamura

Σενάριο: Kôji Yamamura

Μουσική: Hitomi Shimizu

Μοντάζ: Kôji Yamamura

Country: Japan

Year: 2007

Running Time: 21'

Language: Japanese

THE HUNGER ARTIST

Tom Gibbons’ stop-motion creation transports Kafka’s Artist in a postmodern city of futuristic as well as retro elements. Once famous and beloved but now steeped in anonymity, the Hunger Artist is rotting away in his cage. Audience award at the Slamdance festival.

Director: Tom Gibbons

Screenwriter: Tom Gibbons

Music: Blaise Smith

Editor: Rip Reed

Country: USA

Year: 2002

Running Time: 16'

No Dialogue

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MR. SAMSA

Symbolically dark characters placed in a blindingly white environment, non-existing use of prose and an inventive soundtrack in a visual gem by the Oscar-nominated Caroline Leaf, who plunges into the Kafkaesque universe of isolation and guilt.

Director: Caroline Leaf

Screenwriter: Caroline Leaf

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1978

Running Time: 1'

Νο Dialogue

THE MAN WHO WAITED

A man has been waiting all his life outside a closed door. Is the truth or more hours of waiting, behind it? Powerful expressionistic lines, minimal musical accompaniment and a thrilling narrative help this captivating adaptation of a Kafka parable take flight.

Original Title: L'Homme Qui Attendait

Director: Theodore Ushev

Screenwriter: Chloé Cinq-Mars

Country: Canada

Year: 2006

Running Time: 7'

Language: English



    Publication date: 2011-09-06 12:10:10