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Midori-Ko (15*)
9pm
27 October 2012
Cinema 3 (Beech St)
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Tickets:
Standard - £10.50 online /
£11.50 on the door
Barbican Members - £8.40 online /
£9.20 on the door
Concessions £9.50 online /
£10.50 on the door
subject to availability
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Midori-Ko
In this dark sci-fi tale, 21st century Tokyo is a city at the edge of apocalypse. Little Midori is dreaming of a colourful vegetable world, but instead, as a teenager, she travels to a post-apocalyptic, surrealist, and grotesque future that looks like a Jan Švankmajer nightmare where there is a serious food shortage. Neither hunger nor her bizarre mutant neighbours weaken Midori’s vegan spirit. In the meantime, five scientists work in a lab and manage to develop “dream food”, which is both meat and vegetable. The problem is that Midori-ko – a sort of pumpkin with face and limbs – has no intention of being eaten. When Midori and Midori-ko’s paths cross, they will have to fight to stay safe from neighbours, scientists, and even their own instincts.
Japanese animation artist Keita Kurosaka needed more than a decade’s work and almost 30,000 drawings, completely hand-drawn in coloured pencils, to produce Midori-ko, a dazzling, atmospheric “paranoid fairy tale”, as it has been called. Midori-ko is its own unique kind of animated classic, one that takes today's present day environmental concerns and puts them into realms of imagination that most of us would never have dreamed possible.
Japan 2010 Dir Keita Kurosawa 55 min
Midori-Ko will screen with two of Kurosaka’s acclaimed short films.
Worm Story
A parody of Aesop's fable The Hare and the Tortoise where speed and steadiness are embodied by a rabbit and an earthworm.
Japan 1989 Dir Keita Kurosawa 15 min
Agitated Screams of Maggots
A music video which defies categorisation - made for the Japanese gore band Dir En Grey.
Japan 2006 Dir Keita Kurosawa 4 min
Special thanks to the Japan Foundation and Carte Blanche.
Part of London International Animation Festival
* Locally classified
Barbican offer the best new film releases alongside a unique programme of special seasons and events
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