refuge-seekers were held in Israel. The film was co-produced and exhibited by Documenta 14. Kafka for Kids, 2022, 111 minutes, Rosen's feature is a cross-generic film, combining a musical comedy with layers of drama and of political documentary. The film is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka's tales palpable for toddlers. The story delivered in this first episode is The Metamorphosis. It premiered as part of the Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. While the tale of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a vermin is rendered in animation, the reading of the story occurs in live action, in the magical story-house, where an unnamed grandparent figure reads the story to a child, surrounded by a troupe of lively objects, such as Ms. Lamp and Mr. Table. These animistic friends dub the tale's characters, and perform the film's songs, accompanied by a toy orchestra. As the plot thickens, the ensemble is joined by other mascots, such as The Bearer of Bad News, and the house's sage: Kafka's left shoe. The centrality of the law in Kafka's writings and thought, and the notions of childhood that are explored in the film lead towards its end to a very different narrative realm: an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally circumscribed in the occupied territories by military law. Publications Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories. Sternberg Press. 2017. Desire and Dust. Kunsthal Charlottenborg ands Sternberg Press, 2020. ISBN 978-3-95679-545-9 A selection of short texts, including texts by Paul B. Preciado and Sergei Tretiakov. Kafka for Kids. Kunstmuseum Luzern and Sternberg Press, 2022. ISBN 978-3-95679-662-3. An English-German edition of the film's script, with essays by Jean-Pierre Rehm, Fanni Fetzer and Sergio Edelzstein References External links Roee Rosen Mistification Roee Rosen's website A video dialogue between curator Joshua Simon and Roee Rosen on Articok.TV, 2012 (retrieved 9 February 2020) Roee Rosen's page on the website of Documenta 14 (retrieved 9 February 2020) Roee Rosen, "My Influences," Frieze, September 2018 (retrieved 9 February 2020) Roee Rosen's author page on the website of Sternberg Press (retrieved 23 December 2022) Israeli artists Israeli contemporary artists 1963 births Living people People from Rehovot