Three Ways To Dine Well | ALISON PEIRSE

FILMS

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THREE WAYS TO DINE WELL (2021)

Short documentary

21 mins

Digital, Colour / B&W

This essay film explores horror's relationship to eating, in over seventy horror films made by women, from the 1920s - 2020s.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

I had three aims for this film. First, I wanted the audience to discover that women worked in major creative roles on horror classics including The Shining, The Evil Dead and Rosemary’s Baby. Second, I wanted to illuminate little known horror films helmed by women, such as Nettie Peña's Home Sweet Home, Tracey Moffatt's Bedevil and Jackie Kong's Blood Diner. Third, I wanted to showcase the work of the women filmmakers who are now - finally - being written about in horror scholarship: Daria Nicolodi, Mary Lambert, Karen Arthur, Stephanie Rothman (and many more). To achieve this, I've created an essay film composed of film extracts from narrative and experimental shorts and features, and grant-supported, no/lo budget and commercial film. And the remit is global: this film contains women-made horror cinema from South Korea, Australia, USA, UK, Poland, France, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, Laos, India, Italy, Iran, Finland and Czechoslovakia. Sit back, enjoy, and prepare to stack up a TON of new viewing recs.

FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

Official Selection, Nightmares Film Festival, USA

Official Selection, SLASH TV, Slash FilmFestival, Austria

Official Selection, Austin After Dark Film Festival, USA

Documentary Official Selection, GALACTICAT: Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Ponent, Catalonia, Spain

Official Selection, Ax Wound Film Festival, USA

Official Selection, Chattanooga Film Festival, USA

Semi Finalist, Renegade Film Festival, USA

Official Selection, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany

Official Selection, Haunted House Fear Fest, UK

Screening, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University, Canada

Screening, BAFTSS Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK