Consider a Tomato

This film invites you to consider cutting a tomato open, consider the worlds contained within. Consider a recipe for pickled tomatoes in a world full of LED-light grown, rock-wool sown tomatoes. Consider... following tomatoes from closed-off Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker and many greenhouse workers, who leave their own tomato patches to work behind glass walls. Consider your guide to be a manuscript full of family recipes and countless ways of fermenting tomatoes. Filmmaker Marina Sulima will be present at the Saturday screening.

The screenings will be preceded by the 21 min. short City of Poets by Sara Rajaei (2024). This film won a Gouden Kalf for best short doc. Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a semi-utopian, metaphorical city, where all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighborhoods are built to accommodate refugees. Abrupt and sweeping upheavals lead to confusion among the city's residents. Soon they find themselves lost amid the memories of the forgotten poets.

Creative producer behind both films is Manon Bovenkerk who is actively involved in the conceptual and formal development of the projects. Her aim is to support filmmakers using forms of cinema that cross genres and formats.

There will a dinner preceding the screening on Saturday - at 18:30 in the RKZ eethuisje, see below for tickets - with pickled and preserved summer tomatoes from Tuinderij Eikemaheert. With thanks to cooks Tjesse, Robin, Jesse, Samantha and director Marina Sulima!