Combine Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis (get free etext here) with Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, and what do you get? A rather remarkable absurdist short film. Directed by Peter Capaldi, Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life won an Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1994, plus a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. Watch Part 1 above, and then find Part 2 and Part 3 on YouTube. The 25 minute film is also added to our collection of Free Movies Online.
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You will certainly enjoy this, then: Gregor Samsa’s correspondence with Dr. Seuss, a creation of Canada’s CBC and one of the cleverest bits of radio I’ve ever heard. http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/wiretap_20100821_33370.mp3
Odd. The hypothetical contributions of Franz Kafka to “It’s a Wonderful Life” were previously explored by Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz in the story “Receding Horizon” of 1999.
Parts I, II and III do not actually appear to be the entire movie, which runs 80-some minutes and is available from Amazon and Vudu. Although I’m not sure I could take the entire film – twenty-two minutes was clever, but enough.