Cinema, pouvoir et nourriture

Discussion PanelScreening

13.09.24 · 19h

Language : FR

16+

Reserve your place via: education@cinematek.be

Duration: 1h

Place: Cinematek

‘Cinema, Power and Food’ is a conference organised by researcher Louise Van Bradant on how food has been used throughout the history of cinema and can reflect relationships of domination in contemporary society.

Drawing on the thinking of feminist and ecologist researchers (Carol J. Adams, Val Plumwood, Randy Malamud, etc.) and extracts from films such as Les Petites Marguerites, Le Rayon Vert, The Substance, Jeanne Dielman and Babe, le cochon devenu berger, Louise Van Brabant will give a one-hour talk on the way in which food runs through the history of cinema and can reflect the relationships of domination at work in our contemporary societies. As an appetiser, the talk will open with Pauline Horowitz’s short film, Tentative d’inventaire de tous les aliments remarquables ingurgités depuis ma naissance.

Cinéfiltres and FAME are collaborating on this year’s festival theme, food. Two events are taking place at CINEMATEK.
We also look forward to seeing you on 16.09, for the screening of Maryam Touzani’s film Adam.

Louise Van Brabant (she)

Louise Van Brabant is an author, moderator of literary events, columnist and independent researcher in the fields of film and literature. She has a bachelor's degree in French and Romance languages and literature and a master's degree in performing arts from the University of Liège. Her essay Laura Palmer. La femme aux miroirs was published in 2024 by Impressions Nouvelles. She publishes fragments of fiction in magazines and founded rétine, an irregularly published cinematico-poetic magazine.

Pauline Horovitz (she)

Pauline Horovitz is a French film-maker, a graduate of the École nationale des chartes and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and a former resident of the Casa Velázquez. In her work, she seeks out the novelistic potential of reality, to construct narratives tinged with both humour and gravity. She has directed around twenty films, including Cry my daughter, you'll piss less (2012), Castles in Spain (2013), Bats, my love (2018), Daddy's leaving (2020), and, more recently, My war of the worlds, a web series about animals in the city, and A tale of the hell of Auschwitz: Maus by Art Spiegelman. (Source: tenk.fr)