A Friday feast, as captured in Vera Chytilova’s iconic 1966 film Daisies. Chytilova was one of several Czech New Wave film-makers who used food as a tool for allegory and defiance—a topic considered by Emily Gosling in an archive piece for Elephant. “Food, in art, is never just food: artists don’t just depict it because they’re hungry,” she writes, noting that it is more often used symbolically, to reference sex, decay or politics, for instance. “In many 20th-century films made in then-Czechoslovakia,” Gosling proffers, “food was frequently deployed as a means to explore ideas around oppression… in a complex Communist landscape of censorship and struggle”. Read the full feature here to inspire your weekend watching.
