All living creatures on Earth must eat to live. Wild creatures constantly search and fight for food. In contrast, humans... Read More
All living creatures on Earth must eat to live. Wild creatures constantly search and fight for food. In contrast, humans often eat even though they are not hungry and don't need to. Furthermore, they have developed culturally specific rituals around eating. This act is part of the broader concept of consumption—the consuming of the earth's resources. Ultimately, consumption acts as a trigger for mass production, serving as a tool of capitalism that multiplies, produces, processes, and accumulates—enabling profits to grow exponentially.
The practice of excessive consumption disrupts the balance that is an inherent feature of the Anthropocene. The symbolic cannibalization of consumption – everyone eats someone else until they eat themselves.
The idea for this film has been inspired by: Asian food (primarily Chinese), the anarchist practices of freeganism (obtaining food from waste), and imagining situations where food unexpectedly starts to protest. Through a composition of video fragments, both recorded live and digitally generated, the film reaches its unexpected culmination.
