Food Memoirs
(2010)
makers: Pavita Sangruengkit, Shereen Tan and Diana Tjoa.
This is an interesting project that falls somewhere between diary and documentary. It catalogues (and it doesn't ever do more than catalogue from the point of view of composition, style, and so on) the experience of each in terms of what they like to cook and eat in Melbourne. There is a charm that is present as of course there is this ever present relation to the 'real' food of home.
The work feels a bit cluttered with the thmbnails clustered around the video in no particular structure. There is a heap of space below the video and text that is not so much empty as vacant. there are six video thumbnails which I don't think have been recompressed specifically to work as thumbnails (so there's a lot of wasted CPU effort and bandwith involved), there are copyright problems with the music, and the very few moments where you get commentary make things much better.