Cooking History excels at Viennale
The successful documentary film by Peter Kerekes - Cooking History, awarded with the Golden Hugo at IFF Chicago in October 2009, achieved further success receiving the Main Prize for Documentary at
Viennale 2009 – Vienna IFF (Oct. 22 – Nov 4, 2009) .
On the initiative of the Viennale, the “Vienna Film Prize” will be a kind of double-prize this year, awarded separately in both the “Feature Film” and “Documentary” categories. The Jury therefore decided to award "the incredibly unconventional approach with which here the fundamental process of eating is brought to the boil using staged witness statements and original footage" of Kerekes' film. "The result is a perverted culinary feast of war, spiced with a pinch of sarcasm," the Jury states.
Cooking History is the second feature document of the director.
COOKING HISTORY
88 min., AT/SK/CZ 2009
6 wars - 10 recipes - 60 361 024 dead
written and directed by Peter Kerekes
director of photography Martin Kollár
music Marek Piaček
film editor Marek Šulík
The film is based on eleven recipes of the cooks since the Second World War till the war in Tchechenia, from France through Balkan to Russia.
More information at:
www.viennale.at
www.cookinghistory.net
Relanted AIC articles:
Cooking History awarded with Golden Hugo at IFF Chicago
Cooking History nominated for the European Film Academy Documentary Award
Slovak documentaries at 45. IFF Chicago
published: 04.11.2009
updated: 04.11.2009