You Are What You Eat - Free Night at the rampART
- from 8pm on wednesday 21st July

- 15-17 rampart street, london E1 2LA
- thats off commerical rd
- nearest tube Shadwell or Whitechapel, buses 100,15,115

MENU - The evenings tasty treats will include;

* Soylent Green with a dash of Charlton Heston
* A colourful Delmarva Chicken of tomorrow
* all served with the chefs own selected genetix side dishes

There is no table or service charge, entry is free
and you are welcome to bring your own drink.

(Donations are always welcome to help cover costs incured running the place.)

tell your friends...

Ingredients -

> The Genetix COllection
> complied by ToGG & Real2Reel
 http://www.togg.org.uk/resources/videos/

A sellection of shorts from a collection of films about direct action and campaigns to halt the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the food chain. Spanning almost seven years of campaigning, these films show how the diversity of action and imagination has pretty much stoped the GM revolution in it's tracks. Yes, these are meant to be the overtly politcal and empowering propoganda bits of the evening.
There may well be a bit of a talk about the current situation with GM crops and the campaigns against them. If the mood so takes the people that turn up, hopefully there will develop a bit of a discussion.


> Soylent Green (97 minutes Color 1973)
> Starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson
 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue55/classic.html

Dystopia, euthanasia and all the rest, Soylent Green is a basic, cautionary tale of what could become of humanity physically and spiritually if it doesn't nurture the planet that nurtures it. The film's most powerful moments do not belong to Heston, who makes a dubious, ambiguous hero. It is Robinson who lays claim to the most moving passages of the film. As Sol he speaks frequently throughout the film of what the planet was like, and he sounds like any old-timer of any generation. But in this bleak future, as one of the few who remembers, he is the film's conscience and soul.

When Sol finally succumbs to despair and relinquishes himself to a government euthanasia center, Thorn sees glimpses of the Earth's lost legacy. In his world, the average person only sees blue skies and green forests via canned video during their last 20 minutes of life in a government euthanasia center. The film definitely has its moments, when its imagery is powerful and haunting. The sight of inexorably rolling front-loaders indiscriminately scooping up masses of squirming humanity from the streets is as powerful as anything else the film has to say.


> The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow - 15mins
> by Vision Machine
 http://www.visionmachine.org/films.htm#dc

Meanwhile, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow grows over-rapidly large on a forced steroidal diet. Elsewhere, the cousins of The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow pluck and hack in feathered ecstasy over the carcass of a chicken too careless crossing the road. This bright and colourful scene is but a moment of a clamorous market economy busy with flies and children; industrious striped-potbellied pigs rummaging through heaps between houses half-sunk in muddy water, while villagers jump from stone to stone.

Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples' cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers. Rumours of cannibalism persist in tourist guides and travel books today; some people still wear feathers (though most of them have long since died of influenza).

Specially bred with less feathers and more meat, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film that dream-walks from the beaches of Mirtsdroy, where huge tourists, plucked and oiled, baste themselves standing up, to the muddy markets of Sumatra, via an archipelago of Export-Processing zones and television archives. Hand processed with bacterially cultured stock, the images are themselves in organic decay; all the colours and forms of the scrap heap.

Between dream and nightmare, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a traversal of here and elsewhere, first and third world; a fairytale of production, resources, capitalism, globalisation, refuse and refusal: The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film not about the struggle to be seen, but about the struggle to see.


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