Concept, script, production, costumes: Myclef Laun
Filming: Myclef Laun and Thomas Nugent
Editing: Myclef Laun and Thomas Nugent
Filming: Myclef Laun and Thomas Nugent
Editing: Myclef Laun and Thomas Nugent
TABOO COOKING: THE HIDDEN CUISINE
Taboo Cooking: The Hidden Cuisine is speculative film that asks where or what is hidden when we say taboo.
In the Atlantic, culinary writer, Jonah Lehrer writes, “this is the moral of the kitchen: even the most mundane rituals deserve our attention. And maybe they deserve it most of all. To cook is to insist that every hunger is a potential occasion, not just for something delicious (because deliciousness can be easily bought), but for that quality of experience that comes when the flame is on high and the last knob of butter is being whisked into the sauce”. From this premise, Laundry (aka Laun) asks what hunger is taboo, and where is the hidden cuisine?
The idea behind the project is to create an esoteric adventure cooking programme. The aesthetic of the programme uses expert underwater filming, costume design and studio kitchen to look like something shot for the Jamie Oliver studio.
The profesional look of a traditional cooking programme is meant to be misleading with slightly offbeat interviews, meditations and hand-drawn maps of the destinations to the Bohuslän coast.
