Around the world in eight short food documentaries.
Curated with a curious foodie audience in mind, this programme brings together food stories from Mali, Canada, China and beyond.
Meet the latest intake at the Gansu Dingle Noodle School in Lanzhou, China, where students learn the art and business of making hand-pulled noodles. Follow people hunting for snails, foraging mushrooms, tapping maple trees for their syrup, and setting up a roadside chicken rotisserie. Hear from the men on the meat-packing line at a plant in Jeromesville, Ohio, about how they situate their labour in their own minds, and bodies.
These films and more present a kind of constellation of ideas about what food is, or means: a cultural inheritance, craft, a job, a path out of the lowest rungs of society to a more stable future.
Warning: this programme includes footage of animal butchery.
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Programme
Noodle School
(US/China 2018 Dir Jia Li 16 min)
Bamako Chicken
(Mali 2015 Dir Habib Yazdi 3 min)
Sugar Shack Tales
(Canada 2016 Dir Nicolas Paquet 15 min)
Fleshwork
(US 2023 Dir Lydia Cornett 7 min)
Dulce
(US 2018 Dirs Guille Isa, Angello Faccini 11 min)
Sketches of Mushrooms
(US 2023 Dir Jia Li 10 min)
The Raw and the Cooked
(Taiwan 2022 Dirs Lisa Marie Malloy, Dennis Zhou 20 min)
End of the Season
(US 2020 Dir Jason Evans 13 min)
Cinema 3
Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue.
Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
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We’ve plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus
Access
Cinemas 2 & 3 are located at Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican Centre’s main Silk Street entrance. There are a couple of steep, dropped kerbs and an incline to negotiate between the two sites. Level access from Beech Street.
Mobility
Each auditorium has three permanent wheelchair spaces (two in the third row and one in the front row) and 153 fixed seats with capacity for a further three spaces in the front row. Access to each auditorium is up a ramp. There are also a number of seats with step-free access.
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An infrared system for hard of hearing customers is provided in each auditorium; headsets or neck loops can be collected from foyer staff. The ticket desk counter is fitted with an induction loop.
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