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| Timetable :: Programme :: Slow Food Evening |
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Slow Food Evening
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| Monday 10th | 6.30pm | Kino Cinema | |
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The Slow Food Movement, founded in Italy in 1986, is an international organisation whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, develops taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction. Slow Food has over 80,000 members in over 100 countries. Slow Food Cork and Cork Film Festival present the 3rd year of Slow Food on Film with an evening combining food and film in a unique way. We salute the Slow Food producers from Cork city and county who serve up their rare and tasty delights alongside films that inspire thought on the nature of our relationship with food, and the politics of food production. On tonight's menu: Five short films will screen, with delicious bites in between supplied by the cream of Slow Food Cork producers, including:
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| La Vida
Dulce Sweet Life Bettina Bluemner, Rouven Rech Cuba | 2004 | 15mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled It is Mother's Day in Havana, Cuba - a bakery has a lot to do. All the people are gaping through the windows and cracks. The director observes the creamy morsels on their way from the bake shop to the sales counter to the homes and finally to the stomachs of the customers. |
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| A Red Recipe To Cook
Crustaceans Una Receta Roja Para Cocinar Crustáceos Eun-Hee Ihm Mexico | 2005 | 10mins | Beta | Colour A mother and son allow a violent father to die in order for him to become reincarnated as a crab so that he may be punished by his family. |
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| À Table Vania Aillon Switzerland | 2004 | 20mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled A documentary that goes fishing for eaters. The hook is a fish. Wriggling in a bucket, piled up on ice, choked in a plastic bag, dressed up as a fish stick. Taste it, distaste it... Our intimacy appears in our dishes. |
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| Kitchen Alice Winocour France | 2005 | 15mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled A woman prepares a recipe for American-style lobster, which calls for cutting the live lobster into pieces, before throwing it, still alive, into boiling oil. Alone, she tries to kill them as cleanly as possible. |
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