What Do People Eat After the End of the World?
To accompany a screening of Jeunet and Caro’s delightful black comedy ‘Delicatessen’, this talk will offer a tour of post-apocalyptic palates.
Dystopian and post-apocalyptic films are often concerned with what people eat after the world has ended. Whether we are watching a group of survivors try to start a farm in ‘Five’ or exploring fears of synthetic food in ‘Silent Running’, food is a way of exploring both the possibility of restarting civilisation and our darkest fears about the future. In these films, food is much more than what people eat. It is a way of exploring our relationship to the environment, love and family. Covering nearly a century of cinema, Dr Tommy Lynch of the University of Chichester will offer a tour of post-apocalyptic palates. He will conclude by exploring the enduring appeal of cannibalistic futures, from ‘Soylent Green’ to ‘Delicatessen’.
100m inc Q&A
Tickets £8
Sat 18 Oct 10:30
