The celebrated Czech film-maker and Athanor Productions have launched a campaign on the crowdfunding site for what the surrealist artist and director has said will be his final film.
Švankmajer and long-time producing partner Jaromir Kallista are looking to raise more than $150,000 towards the budget of Insects, which has been in development for five years.
The partners have earmarked a summer start on the feature, which will include imagery reminiscent of Kafka and takes place in a local pub where actors rehearse a Čapek Brothers play and gradually become the characters in a series of frightening transformations.
As to the campaign, Švankmajer told Screendaily: “We are trying crowdfunding to finance a part of the film for the first time but we think this is a certain option for the kind of films we make; that is films that are very difficult to fund because they are not commercial, they do not promote anything, or are not...
Švankmajer and long-time producing partner Jaromir Kallista are looking to raise more than $150,000 towards the budget of Insects, which has been in development for five years.
The partners have earmarked a summer start on the feature, which will include imagery reminiscent of Kafka and takes place in a local pub where actors rehearse a Čapek Brothers play and gradually become the characters in a series of frightening transformations.
As to the campaign, Švankmajer told Screendaily: “We are trying crowdfunding to finance a part of the film for the first time but we think this is a certain option for the kind of films we make; that is films that are very difficult to fund because they are not commercial, they do not promote anything, or are not...
- 5/25/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We've been talking about the short film Metamorphosis for quite some time now, but it's a new year and the time for talking has officially come to an end. You can watch the goodies right here, right now! Dig it!
Nick Searcy ("Justified," Moneyball), Patricia Bethune ("Mad Men," "True Blood") and Matt Angel ("CSI: NY," "CSI: Miami," "The Haunting Hour") star in the flick, which was helmed by award winning filmmaker David Yohe.
In a dramatic retelling of Franz Kafka’s literary classic The Metamorphosis, Greg Serling wakes up to an inexplicable illness that transforms him into a grotesque, human-sized cockroach. Will his parents accept a monster in their suburban home, or will they exterminate their own son?
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Nick Searcy ("Justified," Moneyball), Patricia Bethune ("Mad Men," "True Blood") and Matt Angel ("CSI: NY," "CSI: Miami," "The Haunting Hour") star in the flick, which was helmed by award winning filmmaker David Yohe.
In a dramatic retelling of Franz Kafka’s literary classic The Metamorphosis, Greg Serling wakes up to an inexplicable illness that transforms him into a grotesque, human-sized cockroach. Will his parents accept a monster in their suburban home, or will they exterminate their own son?
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- 1/9/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Kafka
Written by Lem Dobbs
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
France/United States, 1991
Steven Soderbergh is a name that carries either plenty of weight or none whatsoever depending on who you talk to. For those who went to see the Ocean’s trilogy mostly for its star-studded cast, namely George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, perhaps the director’s name will fall on deaf ears. For others, the film nerds, Soderbergh is akin to a demi-god. His contributions to modern American cinema in both its mainstream commercial and art house forms are not to be overlooked. Arguably his most interesting works are those for which he chooses to meld star power with his more artistic inclinations, as with The Informant!, Che, and his 1991 oddball neo-noir, Kafka, starring Jeremy Irons and a host of other familiar faces.
Set in Prague a short few years after the first World War, the story...
Written by Lem Dobbs
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
France/United States, 1991
Steven Soderbergh is a name that carries either plenty of weight or none whatsoever depending on who you talk to. For those who went to see the Ocean’s trilogy mostly for its star-studded cast, namely George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, perhaps the director’s name will fall on deaf ears. For others, the film nerds, Soderbergh is akin to a demi-god. His contributions to modern American cinema in both its mainstream commercial and art house forms are not to be overlooked. Arguably his most interesting works are those for which he chooses to meld star power with his more artistic inclinations, as with The Informant!, Che, and his 1991 oddball neo-noir, Kafka, starring Jeremy Irons and a host of other familiar faces.
Set in Prague a short few years after the first World War, the story...
- 11/29/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Metamorphosis
Rhys Ifans is being sought to star in the Chapman brothers' trippy feature "Metamorphosis". Colin Vaines will produce.
A loose spin on the Franz Kafka short story, the plot deals with an insect who awakens to discover that he has become human. [Source: Screen]
Love and War
Actress Monica Bellucci and Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica are teaming on "Love and War" which Kusturica will direct.
Kusturica plays a soldier who chooses to end his life as a monk, Bellucci plays his lover. Paula Vaccaro will produce. [Source: Screen Daily]
The Blue Room
Léa Drucker has been cast in Mathieu Amalric's "The Blue Room" at Alfama Films. Amalric and Stephanie Cleau will also star in the project based on the novel by George Simenon.
The story follows a couple who meet secretly to make love in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. They exchange what they think are innocent words after sex...
Rhys Ifans is being sought to star in the Chapman brothers' trippy feature "Metamorphosis". Colin Vaines will produce.
A loose spin on the Franz Kafka short story, the plot deals with an insect who awakens to discover that he has become human. [Source: Screen]
Love and War
Actress Monica Bellucci and Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica are teaming on "Love and War" which Kusturica will direct.
Kusturica plays a soldier who chooses to end his life as a monk, Bellucci plays his lover. Paula Vaccaro will produce. [Source: Screen Daily]
The Blue Room
Léa Drucker has been cast in Mathieu Amalric's "The Blue Room" at Alfama Films. Amalric and Stephanie Cleau will also star in the project based on the novel by George Simenon.
The story follows a couple who meet secretly to make love in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. They exchange what they think are innocent words after sex...
- 5/22/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One of the great works of world literature is Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed in his bed into an insect-like creature of human proportions. Finally, nearly a century after it was written, Metamorphosis is being brought to cinema screens for the first time.
Here's some info from the Metamorphosis the Movie Facebook page and the official Metamorphosis the Movie website:
Written in a three-week burst at the end of 1912, Kafka’s amazing novella has caught the imagination of generations of readers since its publication in 1915. Yet, apart from various short films, animated versions, and films loosely based on Kafka’s story, there have been only three airings of The Metamorphosis on television over the years: a German production in 1975 (Die Verwandlung), a Swedish version in 1976 (Förvandlingen), and the 1987 television version by the BBC of...
Here's some info from the Metamorphosis the Movie Facebook page and the official Metamorphosis the Movie website:
Written in a three-week burst at the end of 1912, Kafka’s amazing novella has caught the imagination of generations of readers since its publication in 1915. Yet, apart from various short films, animated versions, and films loosely based on Kafka’s story, there have been only three airings of The Metamorphosis on television over the years: a German production in 1975 (Die Verwandlung), a Swedish version in 1976 (Förvandlingen), and the 1987 television version by the BBC of...
- 1/4/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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