Further Research

After deciding that we were going to do our experimental piece about preparing/cooking food, I have done some more research by watching different film clips involving food to find some inspiration and to get a better idea of what we want our piece to look like. I will now add a link to each piece that I have watched and will discuss my thoughts in relevance to our piece.


Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro


This is the opening titles for the French film Delicatessen. This piece does not have much sound to it apart from the music in the background, although it does have the sound of knives being sharpened at the beginning which I have already established as quite a harsh sound and is used quite often in films/sound pieces to do with food, therefore this would be a good sound to include in our piece.

However, this piece is quite interesting to watch as you can see all of the meat being chopped up and the blood making interesting patterns on the tablecloth. Using a table cloth to cut the meat on makes the film more interesting as you can see all the blood being soaked up by the cloth, making it more visually enticing.


The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover by Peter Greenaway

SKIP TO 12:33


This film includes a number of very interesting tracking shots that take the viewer from one end of the dining room all the way through to the other end of the kitchen (12:33 - 13:20).

Now although this is very interesting to watch, I have included this clip in my research as the sounds that are present in the kitchen during the tracking shot have grabbed my attention. This is because as the camera goes past each chef, they are all doing something different creating the different sounds. For example the first kitchen related sound we hear is running water, then throughout the clip we the sound of knives sharpening, whisking, chopping, stirring and pans clattering. These are all sounds that I could use in my piece.


Be Wonderful and Wise - Lurpak Advert


Although this piece is an advert and not from a well known film or artist, I have decided to use this as a piece of research as it is very relevant to the piece that I would like to make. This advert is good inspiration for both the sound and visual part of my experimental film as it includes sounds that would be present in the kitchen and interesting camera shots that attract the viewers attention, e.g. the knife shot when chopping the onions and the pattern that the red cabbage makes when cut in different places.


Food Not Bombs by Hajan Aznam



This piece is an experimental film and sound piece from a film student from the University of Technology Sydney. When I found this clip it was incredibly inspirational as it had everything that I was trying to research, an experimental piece that was both sound and visually interesting.

Food Not Bombs includes all the sounds that come from a kitchen and turned it into a musical piece. This makes it interesting to listen to as its not something that you would normally hear on a day-to-day basis. Creating music with kitchen sounds is a possible idea that we might use for our final piece after talking to our seminar leader.

The film also contains good visuals with the director layering different images on top of each other. The way that he has edited as well makes it look like the images where food is involved could be lots of pictures editing together at a fast pace to make it seem like they are moving rather than a smooth flow of the camera videoing the shots.


Each of these pieces are inspirational to my work in different ways but have helped me gather a better idea of what I want to do for my piece.