{"id":22044,"date":"2022-10-03T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22044"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:58:47","slug":"the-midnight-parasites-by-yoji-kuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/03\/the-midnight-parasites-by-yoji-kuri\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight Parasites by Yoji Kuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kuri-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kuri.jpg\" alt=\"kuri.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Midnight Parasites<\/em> (1972) is a good example of the kind of animation I&#8217;m often searching for: strange and grotesque yet with its own internal logic. Yoji Kuri populates a Surrealist landscape with infernal creatures borrowed from Hieronymus Bosch, a succession of humanoids and predatory monsters whose struggles for survival are overlaid with an uncredited electronic score. I can imagine Roland Topor enjoying this one, it belongs in the same solar system as <em>Fantastic Planet<\/em>. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/midnight-parasites-1972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-surrealism-archive\/\">The Surrealism archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/02\/09\/bosch-details\/\">Bosch details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midnight Parasites (1972) is a good example of the kind of animation I&#8217;m often searching for: strange and grotesque yet with its own internal logic. Yoji Kuri populates a Surrealist landscape with infernal creatures borrowed from Hieronymus Bosch, a succession of humanoids and predatory monsters whose struggles for survival are overlaid with an uncredited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/03\/the-midnight-parasites-by-yoji-kuri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Midnight Parasites by Yoji Kuri&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The Midnight Parasites by Yoji Kuri","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,7,18],"tags":[69,896,12465],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","category-surrealism","tag-hieronymus-bosch","tag-roland-topor","tag-yoji-kuri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}