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202110 minGdoc-short

Aging Food Sustainability

Psychic Meat

202110 minGdoc-short

Ten minutes capture a father-son relationship intertwined with an artificial heart valve and the industrial farming industry that supplied its tissue.

Aging Food Sustainability

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Stephen Wardell

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Ten minutes capture a father-son relationship intertwined with an artificial heart valve and the industrial farming industry that supplied its tissue.

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Wardell reflects on his father's artificial heart valve and their strained relationship in "Psychic Meat." The film connects industrial farming practices to personal loss. Hand-developed in salt, the film’s imagery evokes themes of preservation and decay. The visual effects emphasize the physicality of the narrative, linking the father's life and love to the processes of curing and aging in both meat and memory.

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