Midori-ko
- Format
- MOVIE
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Genres
- Drama
One of the must-see gems making its premiere at our festival, Midori-Ko is adored Japanese animator Kurosaka Keita's whimsically nightmarish vision of 21st-century Tokyo on the brink of apocalypse. Ten years in the making and entirely, single-handedly rendered in colored pencil, Kurosaka's fantastical labor of love is a marvel to behold. Emerging from the staggering detail and craft flooding every frame is the story of a young woman who sets out to engineer a dream-food that can put an end to the world's famine. Synthesizing Frederic Back's subtle, haptic textures with Bill Plympton's frenetic mutations and David Lynch's haunting wormholes, Kurosaka’s work still retains its own singular, luminous potency.
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Midori-ko is a surrealist stop-motion animated film released in 2010, directed and produced by Keita Kurosaka. The project was a labor of love that spanned over a decade, with Kurosaka meticulously hand-crafting the puppets and sets to achieve a unique, grotesque, and visceral aesthetic that departs from mainstream animation styles. It emerged from the Japanese independent art-house scene, focusing on themes of consumption and the bizarre intersection of biology and machinery.
The film centers on a woman who creates a living piece of food, which evolves into a bizarre, sentient entity. Kurosaka’s design choices were heavily influenced by dark fantasy and avant-garde art, intended to provoke an unsettling yet contemplative experience for the viewer. Upon its release, it was received as a cult masterpiece within the international festival circuit, celebrated for its technical audacity and its uncompromising, dream-like atmosphere that defies conventional narrative structures.
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