User:Inge Hoonte/Notes Zhang

Zhang - methodology same, image unpredictable. Video series.

Renee: Tem Popo - Japanese food film. French kissing, passing egg yolk back and forth. Using erotic and decadence of food to weave dishes together.

Zhang: just want food itself, not eating

Zed and Two Naughts / The Cook, His Wife, The Thief and His Lover by Peter Greenaway

Fiona Tan -> tracing Chinese history in her family, through food. She's the thread weaving these stories together. Other film, shot in Japan, on island, furniture.

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Aymeric: what's specific to Chinese food culture?

Zhang: everything is connected to food. Families eating together. Diff food for diff festivals. Food is the sky, the most important thing in life

Japanese food culture very much focused on the art of making, process, display/design. Maybe Ch more about social? No, to me, Jap food so simple. Yin Yang philosophy in food. Hot, cold, symbolic. This year 100 years of Ch immigrants in NL. Ch rest on Katendrecht. More interested in visual essay? Does want to find story. But just beautiful moving images. Not so much concept behind it.