El sabor de la comida de lata
1997 · 6m · España
Directed by Mercedes Gaspar
Genres: animation, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
A photographed meal is devoured in a canned world: an animated still life in a geometric, two-dimensional space where invisible diners consume flat food, in a vanitas on canned food and representation.
Picked by Margot
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A vanitas about canned food animated in flat geometric space—it's the kind of conceptual setup that could collapse into art-school preening, but Gaspar actually executes it, letting the formal constraint become the point instead of the gimmick.
Gaspar positions this within the lineage of structural animation and still-life painting, where the erasure of depth and the mechanical consumption of representation become a precise formal argument about appetite, artifice, and the image itself.
The decision to animate the *act of eating* as pure geometric disappearance—invisible diners, flat food vanishing into a 2D plane—does everything the premise promises in six minutes with nothing wasted.