In MOCAK tradition, during the summer holidays, you are invited to evening film screenings. This year’s edition accompanies the exhibition Food in Art.

The screenings will take place on Fridays from 5 July to 30 August in the Museum Arcades.

You can tell a lot about a person by what they order for breakfast
Paul Thomas Anderson

Food is a useful, catchy and semantically capacious cinematic motif –and uniquely ‘tasty’. As an immanent part of human life, it is of course constantly present in cinema, but in addition to being an element of everyday existence, it carries deeper content and meanings. The culinary motifs show the customs and rituals of various cultures, illustrate the inner transformations of characters, tell the story of their inner development, feelings and relationships, provide a pretext for encounters and conversations, and provide a specific way of expressing the cinematic mood. Due to this semantic capacity as well as its aesthetic and symbolic potential, film-makers have always been keen to use food as a motif, tool and theme. This year’s summer cinema programme consists of cinematic gems, classics and masterpieces that are rarely seen on the big screen and which represent the most iconic and distinctive examples of cinema’s use of the food motif as a way of talking about what is most important in life.

Admission 10 PLN. Tickets available at the Museum box office before the screening and from the MOCAK Bookstore. Online sales will be launched two weeks before the event and will close on the day of the screening at 12 noon or when the tickets have run out. Tickets will be sent to the e-mail address indicated once the payment has been credited.

Cinema curator: Adrian D. Kowalski

MOCAK Summer Cinema

• Friday 5 July
  Babette’s Feast
  directed by Gabriel Axel
  1987, 1 h 42 min

• Friday 12 July
  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  directed by Luis Buñuel
  1972, 1 h 45 min

• Friday 19 July
  My Dinner with André
  directed by Louis Malle
  1981, 1 h 50 min

• Friday 26 July
  La Grande Bouffe
  directed by Marco Ferreri
  1973, 2 h 10 min

• Friday 2 August
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  directed by Peter Greenaway
  1989, 2 h 4 min

• Friday 9 August
  Delicatessen
  directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
  1991, 1 h 39 min

• Friday 16 August
  Fried Green Tomatoes
  directed by Jon Avnet
  1991, 2 h 10 min

• Friday 23 August
  Eat Drink Man Woman
  directed by Ang Lee
  1994, 2 h 3 min

• Friday 30 August
  Tampopo
  1985
  directed by Jûzô Itami
  1985 1 h 54 mi