Metamorphosis: Immersive Kafka (2010) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 19, 2010

Original Title:
Metamorphosis: Immersive Kafka

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
PanoCAST

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 40

This experimental interactive short film is the most authentic adaptation of Kafka's famous story, The Metamorphosis, where Gregor Samsa one morning finds himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. The film tells the entire story using a subjective camera, experiencing what happens from Gregor's perspective, as Kafka himself wanted it to be according to his own diary. It was shot with a 360 degree spherical remote controlled robotic camera that was directed and programmed to interact with the actors and to create an extremely low- angle view of the set as envisioned from the insect's 1st person perspective. Beyond the film/DVD release this method offers several interactive features available on-line, on interactive DVD and in the form of an art installations. —Barnabas Takacs

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Cinematography:
Sándor Kardos

Director:
Sándor Kardos

Screenplay:
Gabor Nemeth

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