September 2, 2026: Midori Hirano × The Juniper Tree @ silent green Berlin
Film Concert: Midori Hirano × The Juniper Tree (1990)
Pre-Release Concert / German Premiere
Heroines Edition # I
Wednesday, September 2
silent green Kulturquartier , Berlin
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
Tickets: 15 Euro / reduced 10 Euro
The Japanese composer and pianist Midori Hirano presents a new live soundtrack for the overlooked arthouse fairy-tale film The Juniper Tree in her pre-release concert. The film also marks the first screen appearance of a young Björk. Combining electronic textures, piano compositions, and finely balanced sonic spaces, Hirano reimagines the film as a contemporary sound experience, creating a sensitive dialogue with the poetic imagery of US filmmaker Nietzchka Keene. The Juniper Tree established the breakthrough of the director, professor, and Fulbright scholar, who died prematurely. Shot in Iceland, the stark black-and-white film weaves together mythology, witchcraft, and female experience in a powerful, atmospheric reflection on misogyny and patriarchal violence.
The film concert celebrates its German premiere and takes place shortly before the soundtrack’s release on VIERNULVIER Records. The introduction will be given by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, initiator of the Videodroom series and music programmer at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER in Ghent.
“The film shows many raw aspects of human nature, such as madness, silence, loss, love, seduction, friendship, deception, self-preservation and innocence, but they are all expressed in a fantastically fragile way. The exciting challenge for me is to incorporate that fragility in the music while keeping its strength”. – Midori Hirano
This work was commissioned as part of Videodroom 2025 in a co-production with VIERNULVIER and Film Fest Gent for the Videodroom series.