While Cursed by Specters
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.
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Burak Çevik Director
United States release September 17, 2020 · Produced in Türkiye · Original title Hayaletlerce Lanetlenirken
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Fol Film
Production
Türkiye
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Original title
Hayaletlerce Lanetlenirken
Original language
Turkish
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
United States · September 17, 2020
Premiere · New York Film Festival
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