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curated by
Emilia Mazik
double bill #16
Eating as ritual and spectacle; our meals are never just about food. Community, class, and cultural values are always present at the dinner table. Luc de Heusch’s Les Gestes du repas and NEOZOON’s Love Goes Through the Stomach show how communities define themselves and how cultures transform through the act of eating.
Set in the 1950s in Belgium, de Heusch illustrates how table manners reflect social order and conventions. Les Gestes du repas reveals both the absurdity of and comfort in these small moments. Fast-paced and direct, NEOZOON reframes eating as spectacle. Their work oscillates between pleasure and violence. Chewing, moaning, whispering: in Love Goes Through the Stomach, consumption itself becomes consumable.
De Heusch presents our mealtime performance as an unconscious act, inherent to the dinner table, while NEOZOON transcends this to show something deliberate. One film focuses on the local, the other highlights the global. Perhaps it wasn’t the filmmaker’s gaze that shifted, but the culture itself.
- Availability worldwide
- Language French, English
- Subtitles Dutch, English
yanco’s double-bill series excavates personal or national Belgian archives—such as CINEMATEK, argos, Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles. A guest curator puts a Belgian work into dialogue with another short film, either formally or thematically. Each double bill is presented with a curatorial note and further contextualised by essays, articles, or interviews.