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
