"Like Street of Crocodiles, The Comb (1990, 17mins) derives from what the Quays have called a ‘reservoir of psychosis’(1) which they identify with certain central European authors writing in the early decades of the 20th century. Bruno Schulz is one inspiration, Kafka another, as is Robert Walser, on whose work The Comb is loosely based. One attractive feature of these writers is a tendency towards the first person point of view, an interest in the small and the local, a certain intimacy. ‘They don’t try and write too hugely, which would intimidate us.’(2)
Ever since Street of Crocodiles (1986), the twins’ producer, Keith Griffiths, had been urging them to develop a feature film, but there was some reticence on their part. All their films had been conceived and realised, basically, by them alone with input from certain specialist collaborators, and this arrangement had worked well. As identical twins, they find communication easy and instantaneous – but a feature would require a far larger team. However, they did find a property which interested them – Robert Walser’s 1909 novel Jakob von Gunten – and began developing it. The Comb would function both as a short and also as a pilot for that feature." (Claire Kitson; for more info read link)
http://rapidshare.com/files/26868932/The_Comb.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/26866965/The_Comb.part2.rar
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