Movie Description

AnimationShort film

 

KAFKA. IN LOVE

| SYNOPSIS
Franz and Milena – between them a distance, her husband and loads of letters – it is love that fills Kafka’s life with light and hope and at the same time illuminates the fears and darkness in him. The animated short “Kafka. In Love” is based on Kafka’s Letters to Milena. It explores less known, but nonetheless extraordinary and puzzling aspects of Kafka’s personality.

 

| TEASER

 

| CREDITS
Director, Art Design – Zane Oborenko
Sand animation – Zane Oborenko, Līva Piterāne, Pola Kazak, Jan Bohuslav
Composer, sound design – Ģirts Bišs
Editing – Julie Vinten, Zane Oborenko
Dialogues – Yes

Animation technique – sand animation
Length – 10 min. 11 sec.
Estimated release – 2024
Audience – Adults / young adults

Production – Marcela Vrátilová, Agne Skane, Ieva Zeldere
Producers – Sabīne Andersone (Atom Art, LV)
Coproducer – Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová (Maurfilm, CZ)
Creative producer – Edmunds Jansons

Financially supported by National Film Centre of Latvia and Czech Film Fund


| DOWNLOADS
Visuals – Zip (11 x jpg)
Plakát – JPG
Presskit – PDF

 

| GALLERY

 

 

| Directors statement

My primary interest and wish with this film was to show constant emotional shifts that the human mind goes through when dealing with strong and complicated emotions – from positive to negative ones and vice versa as they are constantly influenced by fantasy and intruding reality. It’s not only a film about love, but a film about its impossibility and ultimately about loneliness.

Although the film gets its inspiration from letters written between Franz Kafka and Czech journalist and translator Milena Jesenská almost 100 year ago, human nature and our emotional needs remain the same today. The need for connection and understanding are eagerly felt today with distances imposed on us, with distances we have chosen to keep, at distances we find ourselves despite all the possibilities technological advancements offer us today.

As Kafka wrote then: “Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts, and by no means just the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing”.