K's GAZE - Sailing in the wind

When Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod, go on a train journey from Prague to Zurich, they keep parallel diaries, each describing the experience from a different angle, that of their personality, culture, place in society. The novel written this way, was never completed and the journey was the last time they travelled together. This film is the result of a parallel development of fragments of texts by Franz Kafka, landscapes agitated by the wind, imprints of ropes and roots sublimated into paintings, binaural sound, early twentieth century music recordings and re-sampled mixes. The shadow of silent movies, contemporary with Kafka's work, floats like a memory of cinema in and out of the frame, blown-up, slowed-down to a still or accelerated to 24 frames per second. The film invites a second reading, just as Camus wrote about Kafka's art, or rather a second viewing that allows the images the time to develop their language.