A Budding Gourmet

197417mNo ratings yet

Overview

‘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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 1, 1974
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Martha Rosler
Director: Martha Rosler
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt4477992