A Budding Gourmet

‘A cook can’t just mix things up’, says a woman with a typical Brooklyn accent while the camera shows sophisticated images from food and travel magazines. In this black-and-white video, her first in this format, Martha Rosler explores the relationship between gastronomy, class and breeding. A silhouetted woman hiding her face from the camera describes her efforts to improve her status and that of her family through gastronomy . With a deadpan voice and accompanied by the strains of a violin concerto, the woman explains why she wants to become a gourmet. The text comes from one of Rosler’s ‘postcard novels’ entitled Budding Gourmet – also written in 1974 – in which in eleven chapters the artists tells the story in the first person of a woman wanting to learn haute cuisine to climb the social ladder.

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A Budding Gourmet regisserades av Martha Rosler. I en av huvudrollerna ses Martha Rosler.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 17 minuter är A Budding Gourmet en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa A Budding Gourmet i Sverige.