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R A W (Alexis Milonopoulos, 2025, Brasil)
Paraphrasing Carlos Monteiro, a key figure in the global discussion on UPF: the issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as process. And, indeed, what does matter when we talk about eat (it)? Resonating Antonin Artaud, it “(...) is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas [and images] whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger” in its rawness, with/in life’s appetites and crea(c)tivities.
Attuned and caring for these forces, images, ideas and vitalities, R A W is a gesture towards a contrast between UPF – ultra-processed foods, ultra-processed films, ultra-processed people(ing)s –, and the kino(s)omatics, the kinosophies and the cosm(o)nto(ima)ge(ne)tic perceptions, affects, sensations, thoughts, imaginations, body(ing)s and world(ing)s that e/merge in the encounter with different rhythm(ologie)s, speeds, velocities, images, colors, sounds, p(l)aces and spaces. Which, coming from Brasil in their rawness, in natura, in their raw or minimally processed audiovisual dis/positions, sp[o]rs us to feel and re/member that the movement of the jaw is not different from the movements of life and of the cosmos: co(s)m(m)o(n)s.
Ther/eat, instead of tr/eating the earth as an open air all that you can eat buffet, R A W offers ingr[a]dients for us to rewild our under/standings, opening the roof of our mouths in f(l)avor of a cosmic screen/ing that, in-between light and shadows, hungers and appetites, healths and desires, yields different(i)ating qualities of experience, images and a rela(y)tiona(bi)lity a/mid(dle to) mouth-forest-land-cosmos, that account to the fact that, recalling Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, our food practices “do not come after the emplacement of the terms and their relations[, like Nature and Culture or food and eater], but actively participate in the drawing of the lines”: (d) r a w.