#MITO

Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki | 89 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
Co-presented by The Collective of Underground Movie Lovers

5pm, Saturday, 3rd February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

Fame turns against an enigmatic social media star, when her likeness is turned against her, in Static Vision regular Daisuke Miyazaki's latest feature.

Fashion and beauty influencer Mito (Tina Matashiro) is an enigmatic social media superstar, an idol for the young generation whose every action goes viral, with a strangely acerbic persona lurking beneath her fresh-faced schoolgirl mien. When a new collaboration linked to an app exploiting her dewy-eyed appeal turns sour when her image is used for illegal purposes, her fame suddenly turns frighteningly against her... Stylish and quirky, #MITO is an incisive and darkly humourous critique of the contrived authenticity of the social media influencer.

"An intimate, clear-sighted look at an influencer’s life and career — the two being inseparable in Mito’s case — stripped of surface glamour and glitz, if with comically dreamy stylistics... a fresh, smart take on a phenomenon too often treated simply as a joke." - Mark Schilling, The Japan Times

Country: Japan
Year: 2023
Language: Japan