Bliss Point
Italy - United Kingdom - Spain / 2023 / 26'
Plot
Bliss Point plunges us into the ever-accelerating rhythm of food supply and the emergence of new techno-capitalist processes. The film guides us from dark kitchens and food advertising sets to AI-managed warehouses. A delivery rider cycles across the city to a makeshift trailer where workers flip burgers. Algorithm powered robots buzz through a sprawling grid of crates and 3D printers stack layers of computer-generated data to produce food alternatives. Drawing from the concept of optimal palatability, Bliss Point reveals the entanglement of automation and human labour, and the ways in which the aesthetics and the politics of food intersect. Together with Future Foods (2020) and Agrilogistics (2022), it completes a trilogy on scopic food regimes.
Full Cast and Crew
Director:
Gerard Ortín Castellví
Producer:
Gerard Ortín Castellví
Leonardo Bigazzi
Fondazione In Between Art & Film - Lo Schermo dell'Arte
Film Editing:
Gerard Ortín Castellví
Ainara Elgoibar
Usue Arrieta
Cinematography:
Gerard Ortín Castellví
Pep Bosc
Albert Badia
Sound:
Oriol Campi Solé
Tom Fisher
Simon Williams
Póster Oficial
Director
Gerard Ortín Castellví
Gerard Ortín Castellví (Barcelona, 1988) es artista, cineasta e investigador. Tras licenciarse en Bellas Artes en Barcelona y completar sus estudios en Amsterdam, actualmente realiza un doctorado e imparte clases en la Goldsmiths University de Londres. Ha expuesto en la Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Whitechapel Gallery (Londres), Tabakalera (Donostia), Stedelijk Museum Bureau deAmsterdam, Office for Contemporary Art (Oslo). Sus trabajos se han proyectado en el centro Georges Pompidou (Paris), LUX (Londres), o Anthology Film Archives (Nueva York), y en festivales como Open City Film Festival (Londres), Visions du Réel (Nyon), Berlinale, Karlovy Vary o Cinéma du Réel (Paris), donde la película Reserve recibió una mención especial.
Festivals and Awards
Visions du Réel 2024
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
