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Eating Animals SHORTS + Q&A

58 min
Voorstelling 1: Saturday 23 March 18:15 | Studio/K 1
Voorstelling 2: Sunday 24 March 19:00 | Studio/K 2

Everything we eat was once alive and so eating means killing. Plants cause us few problems, but animals raise all sorts of dilemmas. Many people love animals, but they also love meat... How do we deal with that dichotomy? Two excellent short films explore the subject.

Meatwork

Documentary I Madeleine Parry I Australia I 2012 I 29 min I English spoken I no subtitles I EU premiere

Madeleine Parry’s previous Murder Mouth was one of the best short films at last year's Food Film Festival. In it she investigated what it was like to kill her own food, starting with broccoli and gradually working her way up to a lamb. In Meatwork, she picks up where she left off, exploring what it means to slaughter cattle on a large scale. How else can you justify eating meat? She takes a month-long job in an abattoir to find out.

Facing Animals + Q&A

Documentary I Jan van IJken I The Netherlands I 2012 I 29 min I Dutch spoken I English subtitles

Not all animals are equal. While thousands of animals are turned into food in the industrialised and mechanised machinery of the farming industry, a man blow dries the feathers of his prize-winning cockerel. Filmed from the perspective of pigs, chickens, cows and dogs, Facing Animals asks the difficult question: why is it that we treat our pets better than some of our fellow humans, while constructing a system designed to produce as many pork chops as cheaply as possible? A film about people through the eyes of animals.

zaterdag 23 maart 18:15 \| Studio/K 1	zondag 24 maart 19:00 \| Studio/K 2

Eating Animals SHORTS + Q&A

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