Guillermo del Toro once referred to a short film titled “Junk Head 1” as a “one-man band work of deranged brilliance” with “monumental will and imagination at work.” In 2017, after seven painstaking years, “Junk Head” was released as a feature and was a surprise hit at the Fantasia International Film Festival that year. Now, the film is being re-released with a new theatrical edit. An existential work both dark and humorous with a classic sci-fi atmosphere, first-time director Takahide Hori’s stop-motion epic is a cult classic in the making.
Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation, humans are losing the ability to reproduce. And with a virus epidemic that has killed over 200 million people, they decide to descend below to an underworld dominated by artificial lifeforms known as Marigans. Created by humans as labor to develop this mysterious workers’ city, these beings have found fertility...
Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation, humans are losing the ability to reproduce. And with a virus epidemic that has killed over 200 million people, they decide to descend below to an underworld dominated by artificial lifeforms known as Marigans. Created by humans as labor to develop this mysterious workers’ city, these beings have found fertility...
- 8/2/2021
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