Concept statement: Tender Morsels explores female subjectivity, experience and defiance located in a domestic space that serves as a metaphor for the female persona.This film references the darker undercurrents of sexual containment and the exploitative entrapment of women in the domestic sphere. Yet, through culinary creativity and disobedient acts, the film playfully resists the subjugation of women, performing an empowered and unruly femininity.
Synopsis:
Two women inhabit a kitchen where one creates elaborate and symbolic dishes, the other engages with the food and interior architecture in a series of increasingly dislocated and bizarre interactions.
Both humorous and uncanny, their interactions layer reality with subconscious, subterranean implications. The polished performance of everyday housework is subverted through a genderplay with food plates in which the symbolism of cookery ingredients gain a heightened theatricality. Like two halves of a whole, the women finally sit down to a shared meal in a gesture of reclamation. This short film is a sumptuous and visceral visual feast.
The film's imagery references the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, a monumental art work 1974 - 1979 celebrating women’s obscured histories.
Sound track includes "I'm Every Woman" by Shaka Khan
and excerpts from BBC Radio 4 "Woman's Hour"
Directed and performed by Áine Phillips and Helena Walsh
Cinematography by Kevin Biderman
Editing and Sound Design by Connie Farrell
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