Zipangu Fest Ero Guro Mash Up Night
Date:
Friday 26 November 2010 at 9:00pm
Venue:
Zipangu Fest Ero Guro Mash Up Night
A selection of nightmarishly morbid animations in the 'erotic grotesque' tradition from the Japanese underground
The term ero guro nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense), often abbreviated to ero guro, first came into use in the 1920s to refer to a strain of pulp literature typified by writers such as Edogawa Rampo (the phonetic approximation of the American gothic mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe), Yumeno Kyusaku, and various others associated with the popular magazine Shin Seinen. As well as detective, horror and mystery fiction heavily influenced by Western traditions and focusing on deviant sexuality, the irrational and the bizarre, the term also encompassed true crime stories and popular pseudo-scientific texts of a sensationalistic nature.
This shocking selection of nightmarish animations from underground filmmakers Hiroshi Harada and Naoyuki Niiya sit firmly within this hybridised East-West freakshow tradition, and promises a night you won't soon forget! NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED.
Metempsychosis (Squid Festival)
Dir. Naoyuki Niiya, 5min, 1993
Man-Eater Mountain (Hitokui-yama)
Dir. Naoyuki Niiya, 28min, 2008
Midori: The Girl in the Freak Show
Dir. Hiroshi Harada, 52min, 1992
There will be a Q&A with special guest Takuro Kochi, sound designer for Man-Eater Mountain.