An afternoon on Kafka
Sat, Nov 7 at 12-2:30 pm
The Nimoy
Join us for an afternoon on Kafka as we go deeper into the world of Kafka's Letter to His Father and beyond. The event will include a U.S. premiere of Franz Kafka Lost in Fame, a Czech documentary, a panel discussion, and much more.
The program includes:
- Behind-the-scenes remarks on the production
- A conversation with Czech artist Radka Salcmannová, costume designer of Kafka’s Letter to His Father
- Kafka’s Prague: Three Languages, One City, No Belonging — a panel discussion by UCLA faculty on the linguistic and cultural limbo that shaped Kafka's themes of alienation in the midst of the Central European identity crisis.
- A music demonstration of original composition by Jiři Trtik, composer of Kafka’s Letter to His Father
- U.S. premiere of the documentary Franz Kafka Lost in Fame by Pavel Simak
This event is free with RSVP.
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