Eat | Tech | Kitchen

    • Klasien van de Zandschulp, Emilie Baltz
    • Netherlands, United States
    • 2018
    • Installation, Performance, Digital
    • World Premiere
    • DocLab Humanoid Cookbook, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, DocLab Program

    La cucina futurista (Futurist Cooking), published in 1932 by the Italian poet Filippo Marinetti, was a manifesto in the guise of a culinary publication. The futurists visualized a high-tech future dominated by motorized speed and masculine energy. Pasta was for weaklings, Marinetti believed. Instead he proposed scientifically based cooking involving ozonizers and chemical processes to preserve vitamins. It was a sort of molecular gastronomy avant la lettre, but more extreme.

    We now live in the technological society the futurists were striving for, but it’s quite different from what they imagined. This was the inspiration for artists Klasien van de Zandschulp and Emilie Baltz to breathe new life into futuristic cooking. A rudimentary chatbot invites visitors to share their dreams and fears about the future, and uses them as a basis to conceive recipes. Comparable to the revolution in Italian food culture advocated by Marinetti, new rituals and recipes are thus created for the digital age.

    Credits

    • DCP
    Created by
    Emilie Baltz, Klasien van de Zandschulp, Matthias Nagel, Arjan Scherpenisse
    Director
    Klasien van de Zandschulp, Emilie Baltz
    Production
    Klasien van de Zandschulp, Emilie Baltz
    Key collaborator
    Matthias Nagel, Arjan Scherpenisse
    Co-production
    IDFA DocLab, Filmfonds

    IDFA history

    2018
    World Premiere
    DocLab Humanoid Cookbook
    IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction
    DocLab Program

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