Yoji Kuri’s Crazy House

Born in 1928, Yoji Kuri is a Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker whose works span over 800 pieces of animation, 3,000 drawings and more than 100,000 pages of manga.  Kuri is considered one of the most important figures in the history of anime as he brought anime out from its cosy narrative and into a stage of experimentation in the early 1960s. One example is his short film ‘AI (LOVE)’ from 1963, which is set in a surreal fantasy where the only sounds you can make out are grunts, whispers and screams of love in Japanese. ‘Yoji Kuri’s Crazy House’ entails a highly associative exploration of the artist’s imagination.