Metamorphosis / 2015

This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis. Gregor is a young man working for a textile company, who breaks down mentally after his job becomes overwhelming. He slowly loses his sanity and touch with reality.

Metamorphosis / 1975

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.

Die Verwandlung / 2017

Die Verwandlung / 1983

Loosely based on Kafka´s famous novel the film tells the story of a son who one day wakes up as a pig...

Die Verwandlung / 2019

The Metamorphosis / 2017

Translated from German, Die Verwandlung means, 'The Metamorphosis', a title that aligns with King Kong Magazine's 'Metamorphosis Issue' (September 2017), in which Jacobsen's imagery also appears. This notion encompasses a variety of the elements that were studied during Jacobsen’s residency at SHOWstudio in London. Jacobsen cites human shapes found in everyday objects, the intervention of the body through digital techniques, his experiences living abroad, and a focus on raw-looking materials and the unfinished in this work. Working with materials including plastic, dough, and inflated latex condoms, Jacobsen collaborated with mistress of make-up Alex Box to create a shape-shifting character played by dancer Jonathan Luke Baker. The final film and imagery reflect states of discord and harmony in the natural world, manipulated by Jacobsen's digital skill.

Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn / 2002

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas «Toivi» Blatt, son of a Jewish businessman, was 15 when he was deported to Sobibór. Blatt was among those who managed to escape during the uprising only to find his newly found freedom deceptive when old friends and neighbours refused to help. Director Peter Nestler accompanied Toivi Blatt on his trips through Poland.

Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio / 1972

Once upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, which were to take her very far. So far did she go that she had no way of knowing how far she had gone. Two things were certain: Esmeralda del Rio was blond and in her own way she practiced a kind of magic which I would like to call 'blond magic'.

The Transformation of the World Into Music / 1996

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.

Waldgericht - Ein Schwarzwaldkrimi / 2021

The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt inhabitants speculate...

Scuola di sesso / 1982

Il dottor Daniel Jekyll - medico giovane e ingenuo ma di promettente avvenire - lavora assiduamente alla realizzazione di una droga sintetica, fermamente convinto di poter liberare l'umanità dagli istinti bestiali che spesso prendono il sopravvento sulla ragione. Gli esperimenti non sortiscono, tuttavia, gli effetti sperati e la svolta decisiva avviene soltanto per caso, quando il dottore, sopraffatto dalla stanchezza, si addormenta nel laboratorio e inala, accidentalmente, un indefinibile miscuglio di polveri chimiche. La reazione non tarda a manifestarsi: trasformato fisicamente e psicologicamente nel libidinoso Mister Hyde, il giovane abbandona il lavoro, gli amici e la fidanzata e si tuffa gioiosamente in ogni sorta di perversione sessuale.

Chalif-Aist / 1983