While Cursed by Specters

Burak Çeviks film reworks the stark blackandwhite compositions of Danièle Huillet and JeanMarie Straubs 1984 film Klassenverhältnisse Class Relations in which German locations stand in for the imagined country of Kafkas unfinished novel Amerika Here however depopulated interiors and desolate outdoor spaces carry the phantasmic traces of humanityvoices shadows photographs carsbut never let them appear suggesting a world in which all connections to the social have come untethered