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While Cursed by Specters

Plot: 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
Release Date: Thursday, September 17 2020
4 years ago
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Portrait of Burak ÇevikBurak Çevik
Burak Çevik was
26 in While Cursed by Specters
as 'Producer, Director'
Sun, Dec 26 1993