{"id":17028,"date":"2015-07-14T01:11:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2015-07-14T01:11:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:11:33","slug":"the-metamorphosis-of-mr-samsa-a-film-by-caroline-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/07\/14\/the-metamorphosis-of-mr-samsa-a-film-by-caroline-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa, a film by Caroline Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Caroline Leaf’s adaptation<\/a> of Franz Kafka’s most famous story was made by animating sand on a pane of illuminated glass. Leaf made several films using this technique which gives painterly, if monochromatic, results, and is probably less time-consuming than other techniques that aim for similar effects. This is one story that’s best treated as an animation (or theatre, as Steven Berkoff demonstrated<\/a>); Kafka’s Ungezeifer<\/em> is a famously difficult word to translate into English, and an even more difficult concept to bring to life in a film studio.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Kafkaesque<\/a>
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Caroline Leaf’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s most famous story was made by animating sand on a pane of illuminated glass. Leaf made several films using this technique which gives painterly, if monochromatic, results, and is probably less time-consuming than other techniques that aim for similar effects. This is one story that’s best treated as an … Continue reading “The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa, a film by Caroline Leaf”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,42,7],"tags":[6399,7481,1013,1309],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-books","category-film","tag-alexandre-alexeieff","tag-caroline-leaf","tag-franz-kafka","tag-steven-berkoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}