OIAF - Midori-ko

More than twenty years into his career, Keita Kurosaka remains one of the most original and compelling figures on Japan’s indie animation scene. Kurosaka hits OIAF this year with his highly-anticipated feature Midori-Ko, a staggeringly imaginative and surreal vision of  21st century Tokyo on the brink of starvation. The film tells the story of a young woman who, while working to develop a 'dream food' that will solve the city’s hunger crisis, encounters a mysterious creature that transforms her life.  Kurosaka’s animation emerges through conflicting expressions of motion and stillness, light and dark, rest and explosion, to immerse audiences in a powerful symbiosis of story, mood and image.