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Kafka’s Bugaboo

Kafka’s Bugaboo

Kafka's Bugaboo

Emily Breer | Joe Gibbons | USA | 1999 | 5' |

| IFFR 2000

A neurotic scholar, played by Gibbons, leads a ‘buggy’ ride tour through historic Charleston where, according to the professor, Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis after taking a wrong turn on his way to Hollywood. Live-action with 6-legged animation.

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