Love Goes Through The Stomach

BiografieBiography

NEOZOON

NEOZOON is a female art collective. Its work is based on the principle of collage and investigates sociological questions about speciesism in the Anthropocene. Recontextualisation of found footage and/or YouTube material is a recurring element. NEOZOON´s work was exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at Kunstwerke Berlin and has also been shown at festivals in Oberhausen, Rotterdam, London and New York.

Festivals
CREDITS
Editor Montage
Sound Geluid
Production Productie
PRIJS €2,50
PRICE €2,50
BESCHIKBAARHEID
Worldwide
AVAILABILITY
Worldwide
ORIGINELE TAAL English
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE English
ONDERTITELING English
SUBTITLES English
Aspect ratio
16:9
WATCH THE DOUBLE BILLKIJK DE DOUBLE BILL
Kijk deze film samen met Gestes du repas. Watch this film in a bundle with Gestes du repas.
PRIJS €4
PRICE €4
BESCHIKBAARHEID
Worldwide
AVAILABILITY
Worldwide
#022
© Love Goes Through The Stomach (NEOZOON, 2017)

Love Goes Through The Stomach

NEOZOON, Germany, 2017, 15’

Dedicated to nutrition and the human attitude towards “production animals”, this collage provides disturbing insights into the behaviour of a Western affluent society towards animal products. The film starts with YouTube videos pointing to internet phenomena such as ASMR, Mukbang, and Let’s Play Videos. The experimental narrative perspective and precise picture selection are both humorous and bitterly truthful, showcasing destructive aspects of global consumer behavior.

While we traditionally associate food consumption with satisfying basic needs, daily meal preps, awkward family dinners, or culturally rooted collective rituals and celebrations, the media artistic duo NEOZOON offers a darker and more bizarre depiction of human eating habits. Love Goes Through The Stomach compiles images of food as an obsession, fetish, or a source of emotional and sensual satisfaction. 

Once again working with YouTube-found footage materials, NEOZOON playfully sequences a choir of lonely fans of rustling packaging, ASMRish sounds of munching and slurping, discount hunters, aspiring chefs, or followers of online trends such as #whatieatinaday. As the selection includes carnivores only, Love Goes Through The Stomach quickly takes a disturbing turn—not only uncomfortably reminding us of the political implications of our dietary choices but also stylistically evoking body horror. 

Nearly a decade since the film’s original release, the doom-scrolling era has intensified. More than ever, it’s not the food itself but rather its simulacrum, the high-quality images of food, that fills our stomachs. Ceci n’est pas de la nourriture!” — Emilia Mazik

Love Goes Through The Stomach was hand-picked by Emila Mazik as a response to Luc de Heusch’s Gestes du repas from 1958. Mazik is a freelance short film programmer and industry expert based in the Netherlands. Currently, she works as the Head of Industry at Kaboom Animation Festival and is a selection committee member of both Film Fest Gent and Glasgow Short Film Festival. Emilia is also co-founder of online film magazine Talking Shorts.

Tekst en keuze doorChoice and text by
Emilia Mazik

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.