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MFKZ

(Mutafukaz)

Dir. Shôjirô Nishimi, Guillaume Renard
90 mins | 2017 | Japan, France

Showing Times:

• Sat 24 Nov: 4pm
• Sun 25 Nov: 4pm
• Mon 26 Nov: 1.30pm
• Tue 27 Nov: 6pm

A FILM BY GUILLAUME ‘RUN’ RENARD & SHOJIRO NISHIMI

Genre-mashup MFKZ is the collaboration of French comic artist Guillaume ‘Run’ Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4°C, creators of Tekkonkinkreet, Genius Party and Mind Game. The Tekkonkinkreet dream team of Shojiro Nishimi and art director Shinji Kimura reunite to bring to life a dark but stunningly animated sci-fi vision that mixes anime, film noir, and Lucha Libre in an orgy of video game-inspired mayhem.

The film centers on young Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz, who live in a seedy tenement in an LA-inspired dystopian metropolis – a burnt-out, gang and cockroach-ridden neo-urban hell. Following a scooter accident Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins: he is half-human and half-Macho, a supernatural alien race that is bent on taking over the planet.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74