Gabor Nemeth

Alex wakes up on the morning of his wedding with an incredible hangover and a beautiful stranger next to him. The girl tells him that they met in the bar the night before, went upstairs and spent a wonderful night together. Does he not remember? Alex almost loses his mind, Vicky, his bride, is about to arrive and he is standing there - unfaithful and hungover - what a disaster. The bride arrives and Alex begs his best friend and best man to help him out. He doesn't like taking on the role of the gigolo at all. But things turn out differently.

This experimental interactive short film is the most authentic adaptation of Kafka's famous story, The Metamorphosis, where Gregor Samsa one morning finds himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. The film tells the entire story using a subjective camera, experiencing what happens from Gregor's perspective, as Kafka himself wanted it to be according to his own diary. It was shot with a 360 degree spherical remote controlled robotic camera that was directed and programmed to interact with the actors and to create an extremely low- angle view of the set as envisioned from the insect's 1st person perspective. Beyond the film/DVD release this method offers several interactive features available on-line, on interactive DVD and in the form of an art installations. —Barnabas Takacs