TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE
(タマラ 2010 ア パンク キャット イン スペース)
Dir. t.o.L. 2002.
Japan. 92 min.
Japanese with English Subtitles.

SATURDAY, JULY 5 - 5:00 PM
TUESDAY, JULY 15 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JULY 20 - 5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 - 10:00 PM

TICKETS

Mickey Mouse. Astro Boy. Betty Boop. Hello Kitty. Tamala. Wait – you don’t know Tamala? She’s only the most important kitty cat in Meguro City,  no – on all of Cat Earth! Her face is everywhere. You can’t escape it. It’s almost creepy… Anyway!

TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE is the story of our titular Tamala (don’t call her Tam). Despite her cute looks, Tamala is no baby. She smokes, she drinks, she curses, she starts fires, she struts ass. Certainly not appropriate behaviour for the corporate face of CATTY & CO. Feeling stifled by her overbearing human mother and a general sense of ennui, Tamala decides to steal a rocketship and hightail it off the planet Aye Es Aye Pee. With her boyfriend Michaelangelo (don’t call him Moimoi) by her side, the two work to uncover the mysteries of Tamala’s real family, her true nature, and her shocking purpose in the universe.

Funded and conceived by the mysterious Shibuya-kei group t.o.L. (aka Trees of Life, about which little is known) and aided by the animator Kentaro Nemoto, TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE is a Pynchonesque, cutting-edge black & white fusion of the 2nd and 3rd dimension with a razor-sharp critique of Japanese Kawaii culture and the dystopian Post-War consumerist idolatry that drives it to this very day.

Special Thanks to Deaf Crocodile