Here is the vimeo link to the rough cut of my portfolio film.
Artistic Statement
Building off of my experiences working in restaurants, and my nostalgia for certain movies like Ratatouille (2007), The Dish showcases the curiosity I feel after eating another chef’s food.
The story was derived from hours spent spilling over Suzanne Goin’s Sunday Suppers at Lucques, learning how to recreate delicious high quality restaurant meals, while also learning the trade secrets of the industry. I wanted to combine this feeling with my skills as a filmmaker, and that’s where this idea was born.
We enter the cold depressing kitchen of a cook who can’t seem to get the flavor right. A cook who’s always one ingredient behind, or one technique away from the dish’s master. Try as he might to replicate the warm feeling of that delicious meal, he’ll always fall short, but in the end, the cook creates something wonderfully new.
