Kafka's Amerika

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Kafka had never visited America but used photographs from travel books as inspiration for his novel. Carolin Duttlinger explains how Kafka's very approach to writing was formed by his experience of photography.

credits:
Directed and edited by Richard West
Camera: Brian Morrison
Sound: Daniel Jewesbury
Title Sequence: David Haughey

Music: Smetena, String Quartet no.1 in E minor
recording: The Hollywood String Quartet (1955)

Film clips: excerpts from Manhatta (1921) directed by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand.
Excerpts from The Goat (1921) directed by and starring Buster Keaton.

The Kaiserpanorama in the Märkisches Museum, Berlin,
filmed by Guim Bonaventura i Bou and used with permission. www.gbib.cat

Photographs: Hotel Latham, New York (between 1905 - 1915) Detroit Photographic Company collection. 'Bell boys at the Hotel Martin' (1910) and 'Rolling cigarette cases in tenement home' (1912), Lewis Hine. Pitcher and bowl in hotel room, John Vachon. Actors on U.S.S. Maine (1896) Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress.

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