Food on Film Series

Tuesdays & Thursdays

The DMG presented a series of feature-length films and documentaries to accompany Rita McKeough’sThe Lion’s Share, bringing together film and art lovers to expand on ideas of consumption, the food industry and other urban and environmental concerns.

PROGRAM 1: CONSUMPTION AS SATIRE

September 18 & September 20, 1 pm
Delicatessen (1991, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 99 min)
In this dark comedy, set in a post-apocalyptic France where food has become currency, the burgeoning romance between a circus clown and butcher's daughter is threatened when it's discovered that her father is butchering people and selling the meat to tenants.

September 25 & September 27, 1 pm
Fast Food Nation (2006, Richard Linklater, 116 min)
An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences, loosely based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name.

October 2 & October 4, 1 pm
Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer, 97 min)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new food.

PROGRAM 2: NON-FICTION FOOD

October 9 & October 11, 1 pm
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011, David Gelb, 81 min)
A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his business in the basement of a Tokyo office building, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir.

October 16 & October 18, 1 pm
The Greenhorns (2010, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, 40 min)
Armed with a camcorder, farmer-filmmaker-activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years crisscrossing America, meeting and mobilizing a network of revolutionary young farmers resettling the land.

October 23 & October 25, 1 pm
Our Daily Bread (2005, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 92 min)
This untraditional documentary looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe - monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds. It is an unblinking, often disturbing observation of industrial food production from field to factory.