Free Food-Themed Film Screening

Followed by a Lecture by Dr Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University) on Food and Cinema

Friday 21 November 2025, 5-9 p.m. – FSM Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Food provided. Limited spaces, registration required

FOCUS Forum on Film and Screen Media Theories and PhD research group of UCC’s Film & Screen Media Department presents a screening that promises to engage all five of the viewer’s senses. Capping off a year of our group’s academic research into the intersections of food and cinema, FOCUS offers a special screening of Trần Anh Hùng’s 2023 romantic drama The Taste of Things, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.

Our screening offers something a little different. In screening a film that features prolonged scenes of cooking and dining, attendees will be treated to prepared dishes to eat alongside the film’s characters in real time. This special event promises an immersive experience and tantalised taste buds. Our menu for the evening is prepared by FOCUS’s own gourmet Joe Huber, and presents the following:

• Quiche au Fromage de Gruyere (Cheese Quiche similar to a Quiche Lorraine, but vegetarian).
  
  
• Soupe Au Pistou (Vegetable Soup with a pesto) served with bread.
  
  
• Baked Alaska.

Following on from this one-of-a-kind screening, attendees will be treated to an online lecture and Q and A session by Dr Cynthia Baron (Bowling Green State University), co-author of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation (Wayne State University Press, 2014). Dr Baron will present an introductory lecture into current trends in academia surrounding the intersections of food and cinema. Dr Baron’s expertise promises a discussion not to be missed.

Cynthia Baron is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. Her research and teaching interests include American Independent Cinema; Screenwriting; Taste Formation; Censorship; Food Studies; Women’s Cinema; and Actor Training, Stardom, and Screen Performance. Her most recent book is the co-edited anthology Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness. Earlier this fall, she presented a keynote address in Strasbourg, France, on screen performances in Barking Water, a 2009 film by Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo.

Attendance is free but please register at link below to book a space and to confirm dietary requirements:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WAhJyNFSCnd1hDQyiaZ_gEc7ujWhyuPirL0Goj-sZF8/edit?usp=sharing

Sponsored by the Department of Film and Screen Media, UCC