The Wishing Table | Maria Korporal

The video above is a short trailer. The full video “The Wishing Table” is 4:10 long and is shown in screenings and exhibitions, or upon request.

The Wishing Table in the famous Grimm brothers’ fairy tale is covered with food and drink after one speaks the magic formula “Little table, spread thyself!”. This video proposes a series of very recent formulas or key concepts like sustainable agriculture, food waste reduction, permaculture, and many more. All these ideas refer to sustainable agricultural and biological cultivating methods, as well as sustainable distribution and consumption systems, as viable alternatives to the current disastrous industrial food production, distribution and consumption practices. The video is a vivid animation of charcoal drawings which proceeds along lines of a natural food production, distribution and consumption cycle. It ends with an abundant Grimm-like palette of healthy food.

title: The Wishing Table
technique: Experimental video, charcoal animation
length: 4’10”
year: 2023
sound: field recordings, public domain
concept, camera, drawing, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal