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Kafka's "The Trial" In 3D

A digital theatrical production following the tribulations of Josef K.

It’s not just the medium of film that has claims to 3D, now theatre is in on the act too. Sure, you may say that theatre is already in 3D and you’d be right, but this interactive performance uses digital technologies to heighten the theatrical experience. From artist duo Robert Praxmarer and Reinhold Bidner collectively known as 1n0ut, CPU is based on Franz Kafka’s existentially-potent bureaucratic nightmare novel The Trial. It uses real-time 3D imaging to disorient the viewer, immersing the audience into the hellish world of the book’s protagonist.

Here’s what they say:

In Franz Kafka's The Trial 1n0ut found a world full of loops, repeats, instructions and protocols which are familiar parts of every computer programme. This classic text becomes the springboard for a stereoscopic real-time dance theatre piece. The images of the performers are gathered digitally, manipulated and remixed live to plunge an audience each wearing 3D cinema glasses headlong into a thrilling and disturbing illusory world. What steers mankind, what goes, what is lie, what is the logic of the absurd and what the illogicality of reality?

[via Create Digital Motion]