While Cursed by Specters

Overview

Burak Çevik’s film reworks the stark black-and-white compositions of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1984 film Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations) in which German locations stand in for the imagined country of Kafka’s unfinished novel, Amerika. Here, however, depopulated interiors and desolate outdoor spaces carry the phantasmic traces of humanity—voices, shadows, photographs, cars—but never let them appear, suggesting a world in which all connections to the social have come untethered.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 17, 2020

Original language

Turkish

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Turkey

Production

Fol Film

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded