The Barbican's championing of ground-breaking and unheard voices in cinema continues with their summer season programme: Eat the Screen. A project encouraging its audience to consider everything from food waste to their own meat consumption, this platter of small films, documentaries and animations promises to inform, entertain, and most importantly, feed. ‘Short Cuts’, a series of 8 documentaries, could nourish your knowledge of maple tapping in Canada or snail-hunting in Taiwan. Alternatively, visit Masamoto Ueda’s tiny ramen restaurant in Tokyo, and discover the power of food in building community in ‘Come Back Anytime’. Barbican Cinema curator, Tamara Anderson, wants to feed our ‘curiosity on the subject,’ and explore ‘what food is: a cultural inheritance, craft, job, a path out of the lowest rungs of society.’ This heartfelt curation of films on food is sure to offer a flavour of growing discussions on farming, sustainability, and culture, and awaken your appetite for knowledge.
‘Eat the Screen: Films to Feed Conversations About Food’ is running from 9 July - 24 August. For more information on screenings and times, visit the Barbican website.
