2017
A Hunger Artist adapts Kafka’s 1924 short story, an ambiguous allegory about spectacle and spectators; power, narcissism, and resistance. A public showman fasts for years to wide adulation, until his craft goes out of style. He is left to perform for unappreciative spectators and, ultimately, to barely please only himself, unto death. The film highlights the contradictory human experience of our bodies as both ‘objects’ and ‘subjects.’
Cast
Artist
Hayley Carmichael
Impresario
Oliver Ryan
Supervisor
Kate Duchêne
Panther
Onyx
Crew
Screenwriter
Nick Gill
Producer
Laura Shacham
Performance Director
Joseph Alford
Director of Photography
Suzie Lavelle
Art Director
Billur Turan
Editor
Guy Ducker
Composer
Zeena Parkins
Sound Recordist
Christian Bourne
Sound Designer
Daniel Jaramillo
Executive Producer
Marcus Werner Hed
Production Manager
Nicholas Clegg
1st Assistant Camera
Jon Howard
2nd Assistant Camera
Joe Martin
Digital Imaging Technicians
Simon J. Brooks
Villing Chong
Grip
Ben Lowe
Gaffer
Carolina Schmidtholstein
Sparks
Jenny Dyson
Kev Cooley
Projection Manager
Will Francome
Animal Animations
Robert Rapoport
Stills Photographer
Thierry Bal
1st Assistant Director
Jacques Simon
2nd Assistant Director (1st sub)
Laurent Durham
3rd Assistant Director
Josie Kyan
Boom Operators
Sam Masters
Anna Robinson
Make Up
Sara Menitra
Make Up Assistants
Siena Powloski
Claire Walker
Costume Designer
Lucas Trattou
Costume Assistants
Estera Parker
Naoise Farrell
Prop Manager
Sophie Shickle
Set Builder
Piers Jamson
Art Department Assistants
Julien Bader
Tom Chisholm
Carpenter
William Wyld
Rigger
Beau Wicks
Art Department Runner
Will Robinson
Runners
Leyla Alizada
Joseph Durr
Robbie Pyburn
Alexander Boulos
Lydia Muir
Dominic Innes
Casting
Matthew Dewsbury
Additional Casting
Joseph Alford
Additonal Cast
Waiter: Tom Godwin
Bearded Man: Joseph Alford
Girl Volunteer: Mina Alford
Mother and Baby: Gemma and Camille Atkinson
Ladies from the Audience: Jennifer Jackson and Sacha Plaige
Butchers: Tim Fordyce, Will Robinson, Joseph Quartson,Jan Van Der Black
Marching Band: Nicky Jenkins, Jody Haycocks, Geoff Moore, Haydn Leech, Dan Sparkes
Girl with Doll, and Mother: Anna and Katy Robb
Sousaphone Player: Nicky Jenkins
Supervisor’s Assistant: Madalene Clegg
Jugglers and Angel: Jo and Jake Galbraith
Crab-walking Girl: Anna Robb
Bearded Man’s Son: Laszlo Alford
Panther Handler: Emile Smith
Additional Movement: Jennifer Jackson, Tom Godwin, Sacha Plaige
ADR Performance: Tom Godwin, Sacha Plaige
Cast: Spectators
George Bailey
Richard Beadle
Kevin Bedford
Paul Boughton
Raymond Burnet
Christian Carroll
Douglas Clegg
Samuel Dauncey
Diego De Las Heras Pardo
Ema Epps
Rafael Escardo
Anna Pye
Ksenia Gumerova
Thomas Hardwick Allan
Nick Hall
Mattina Hiwaizi
Charlotte Hussey
Pauline Jackson
Dominic James Chadwick
Margaret Jennings
Iryna Kril
Melisa Kril
Nikol Kril
Evangeline Ling
Rosie Lonsdale
Cocoy Lumbao
Rosa Mollona
Sofia Mollona
Andrew Ogleby
George Palmer
Tom Shacham
Sue Reardon Smith
Leonor Serrano Rivas
Morrie Shimidzu Yearsley
Bastian Stern
Oli Russell
Rebecca Thornton
Ece Tekbulut
Antonia Tietze
Luna Tosin
Catherine Treveil
Margrethe Troensegaard
Ella Turner Bridge
Niall Urquhart
Matthew Vickers
Rita Wallace
Keith Yearsley
Kariss Young
Accounting
Mario Inchenko
Visual Effects
Andy Quinn
Foley Artist
Marco Toca Ramirez
Colourist
Vic Parker at Raised by Wolves
Additional Percussion
Willie Wynat
Circus Organ Music
‘Tulips of Amsterdam’ composed by Klaus-Günter Neumann
‘Radetzky March’
Composed by Johann Strauss Sr.
Performed by The Oompah Band
Made at
3Mills Studios, London, England
With special thanks to
Panalux, One Stop Films, Blitz Rigging, SANDS catering & MFL Brass
Development
Dennis Herman
Nikola Kern
Aikaterini Fotopoulou
Jerwood Space
Amanda Lawrence
Lydia Matthews
Nicholas Ollivere
Emily Troscianko
Manos Tsakiris
Carolina Valdes
Thanks to
Jim Clubb at Amazing Animals
Steven Bode
Elinor Cleghorn
Sara Cluggish
Lina Dzuverovic
Melissa Gordon
Robyn Haddon
Amy Hounsell
Victoria Knowland
Laura Sillars
Jens Hoffmann
Oliver Evans
Heike Catherina Mertens
Massimiliano Mollona
Katja Naie
Pavel Pys
Ritchie Robertson
Corin Sworn
Erol Turan
Nuray Turan
Xiao-Yen Wang
Edmund Waller Primary School
John Stainer School
Prendergast School
Rockmount Primary School
Made with generous support by
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Visual, Carlow, Ireland
Further funding provided by
Arts Council England, London, UK
Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK
St John’s College, Oxford, UK