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'GIVE IT UP!'

2025 16 min Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Music, Animation

Loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story, 'GIVE IT UP!' is a live-action animation odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The narrative follows a lone salesman trapped in a timeless city, increasingly lost in his feverish dreams. Desperate, he races towards a train station as his last hope of escaping the city, encountering divine light, winding roads and the forces of bureaucracy. This deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurd humour and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but also elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness.

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director Alexander Bigaliy

writers Alexander Bigaliy, Franz Kafka

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'GIVE IT UP!' | Surrealist Odyssey clip
'GIVE IT UP!' – surrealist brickfilm (DIRECTOR'S CUT) clip
GIVE IT UP! – surrealist magnum opus clip

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