IFC Midnight has released a trailer for writer-director Peter Strickland’s (In Fabric, Berberian Sound Studio) upcoming black horror-comedy Flux Gourmet which centres on a group of people who become embroiled in power struggles, vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders after taking up residency at an institute for culinary and alimentary performance.
Watch the trailer here…
A sonic collective who can’t decide on a name takes up a residency at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance. The members Elle di Elle, Billy Rubin and Lamina Propria are caught up in their own power struggles, only their dysfunctional dynamic is furthermore exacerbated when they have to answer to the institute’s head, Jan Stevens. With the various rivalries unfolding, Stones, the Institute’s ‘dossierge’ has to privately endure increasingly fraught stomach problems whilst documenting the collective’s activities.
Upon hearing of Stones’s visits to the gastroenterologist, Dr Glock, Elle coerces him into her performances in a desperate bid for authenticity. The reluctant Stones puts up with the collective’s plans to use his condition for their art whilst Jan Stevens goes to war with Elle over creative differences.
Flux Gourmet features a cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed, Makis Papadimitriou, Richard Bremmer, and Leo Bill.
Flux Gourmet arrives in select cinemas and On Demand on June 24th.
