We’re huge fans of Peter Strickland around these parts, so if you aren’t down with The Duke of Burgundy or In Fabric, well, we’re gonna challenge you to a duel at dawn, partner. It’s a good time for a duel over Strickland’s honor, given that the surrealist horror director is back with a first look at Flux Gourmet, his brand new project starring Asa Butterfield and Gwendolyn Christie, just in time to fuck up the start of your workweek. IFC dropped the trailer earlier on Monday morning in advance of the film’s premiere in Berlin later this week, and boy, it is something.
Peep it (and draw):
Good luck making any sense of this synopsis, but we thought we’d put it here so that you could try to while we bleed out:
“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 will have its premiere on February 11 at the Berin International Film Festival, but it’ll take some time for it to arrive over on these shores: IFC is saying that it’ll hit theaters and VOD sometime this summer. Then again, time is an illusion. So, if you really wanted it to be here, well, just start fantasizing about it or something. Who knew that the secret to time travel was really just The Secret all along? Maybe that’s just the blood loss talking.