KIRIKO MECHANICUS
film director, culinary historian, writer, photographer and party girl amongst other things
A TOMATO TRAGEDY (2023)
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A TOMATO TRAGEDY (2023) 〰️
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NRC, augustus 2023
Amsterdamse straatkrant, juli 2023
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- Walter van der Kooi, Groene Amsterdammer
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PANTEA, music video for Lorenzo BITW (2021)
PANTEA, music video for Lorenzo BITW (2021)
JONGENELIS & MECHANICUS, publishing house by Kiriko Mechanicus and Una Jongenelis
JONGENELIS & MECHANICUS, publishing house by Kiriko Mechanicus and Una Jongenelis
THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTY, theatre performance co-directed with Just van Bommel (2021)
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTY, theatre performance co-directed with Just van Bommel (2021) 〰️
“De lichte toets waarmee de makers je op reis nemen in de wereld van de cinema werkt aanstekelijk. De slotscène is prachtig: terwijl Van Bommel een over-the-top huilbui performt creëert Mechanicus met haar camera een droste-effect door de projectie zelf in het beeld op te nemen. Bij iedere emotionele uithaal bewegen oneindige Van Bommels met steeds een kwart seconde vertraging met hem mee, waardoor er een absurd dramatische en toch ook ontroerende choreografie ontstaat. In hun zoektocht naar de kracht van cinema ontwikkelen Van Bommel en Mechanicus zo een eigen beeldtaal die nieuwsgierig maakt naar toekomstig werk van het duo.”
- Marijn Lems voor de Theaterkrant 2021
ESSAYS AND STORIES
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![SUGAR CRACKLE SHORTCAKE for Extra Extra magazine #22]()
SUGAR CRACKLE SHORTCAKE for Extra Extra magazine #22
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![https://hardhoofd.com/deegman/]()
DEEGMAN for Hard//hoofd (2023)
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'Ik kadreer haar zo' voor de maand van de geschiedenis (2020)
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'In Habbo Hotel gaat het sociale leven in quarantaine gewoon door' for Vice Magazine (2020)
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'Why is a tomato the essence of cinema?' for Celebrating Cinema (2021)
SWEET CORE MEMORIES
During the infamous corona year 2020, Kiriko Mechanicus started baking Therapy Cakes: due to a lack of access to a psychologist, Mechanicus baked her problems into cakes in order to eat them in good company. The purpose of this ritual was to make the problems dissapear.
For Sweet Core Memories, Mechanicus made dessert-shaped translations of the first memory, which are eaten together to experience the sensory feeling of a child’s memory.
How do we get to know each other better by reliving our first memory together?
for the opening of the Documentary Pavilion, 2024
Opening speech at state visit of Italian president Sergio Mattarella at 30 year anniversary of Treaty of Maastricht
20 RECIPES FROM A YEAR OF DISASTER, recipe book from 2020
20 RECIPES FROM A YEAR OF DISASTER, recipe book from 2020
OPINIONATED MOMENTS WHILE LOOKING GREAT:
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![https://debalie.nl/programma/pete-en-de-bananen-12-06-2020/]()
On Yellow Fever at the Balie 2020
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![https://www.human.nl/speel~VPWON_1349113~mediastorm~.html]()
On Asian media representation at Mediastorm 2023
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![INTERVIEW FOR EYE MAGAZINE]()
INTERVIEW FOR EYE MAGAZINE
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![https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/de-nacht-van/70028/kiriko-mechanicus-over-het-cinemasia-filmfestival-en-aziatische-films]()
On the Cinemasia filmfestival at De Nacht van BNNVARA 2023
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![https://dutchculture.nl/en/news/newgen-kiriko-mechanicus]()
Interview with Dutch Culture 2022
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Interview Nederlandse Filmacademie 2023
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![5 boeken over eten die je op een andere manier naar de wereld doen kijken]()
'5 boeken over eten die je op een andere manier naar de wereld doen kijken,' for ILFU, 2024
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![https://news.johncabot.edu/2023/01/kiriko-mechanicus-mattarella/]()
Art about Food: Alumna Kiriko Mechanicus, John Cabot University, 2023
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interview with Gasper Noé
Photography miscellaneous
Kiriko Mechanicus (she/her, 1995) also known as Kiri Academy, is an Amsterdam-based Dutch-Japanese documentary filmmaker, writer of fiction and non-fiction, culinary historian and researcher, photographer, art director, full-time opinionated bitch and part-time party girl.
Her graduation film ‘A TOMATO TRAGEDY’ (2023) was selected for the Nederlands Film Festival and won the Filmfonds Wildcard prize, allowing you to hear more of her in the future. She directs music videos, short documentaries, experimental videos and babbles about cinema endlessly (publicly). Kiriko writes for various literary publications such as Vice magazine, Hard//Hoofd, Brandpunt+ or the Oerol dagkrant. She was once even asked to write a poem for the visit of Italian president Mattarella at the 30-year anniversary of the European Union in the Netherlands. Ain’t that wild! Occasionally, miss Mechanicus appears on the tellie or in a news-pa-per. Professionally, she is down for anything, especially things that she hasn’t done before.
pic by Anne den Boer