Eat Me

PREY: You ever eat a woman?

(BEAT)

PREDATOR: Not yet.

Loud dress, no shoes - Prey slips in the rain, every raindrop a tooth. The Man, watching his neighbours from the shadows of his flat, sees breakups, group sex, a dog die and revive, and her - melancholic, solitary. For Predator nothing will ever be the same again.

One night, slipping through the liminal spaces, three nameless people download Tor, leave grandmother’s house and run for their lives.

EAT ME is a luscious, incendiary theatre show about unconventional love, chaos, control and the shifting complexities of power. Inspired by Han Kang’s ferocious domestic thriller, The Vegetarian, Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, queer horror and Nordic Noir, EAT ME, written by award-winning playwright Luke Sutherland, tells the story of two women who use the dark web to find one another and together commit an act of consensual cannibalism.

As videographer, I led a unique documentation process for this physical theatre show. In collaboration with director Eszter Marsalko and cinematographer Conor O’Toole I shot and edited an feature-length experimental film of the performance.

In an uncertain environment where live performance was impossible due to COVID restrictions, we wanted to translate the show to video, creating a new artwork that took on the joy and menace of the performance. The finished film is availible to view on request.

All photography is (c) Mihaela Bodlovic

“a vision of excess consumption in a world where lust for sensory pleasure turns cannibalistic.”

★★★★

- The Guardian