Last Suppers is a small project I would like to share with everyone out there in the worldy-world. It's going to be a series of films, each one imagining the final meal eaten by a famous person. I like to film and photograph food in unusual ways, so this is a perfect project for playing around with different styles. Please, join me for a mysterious foodtastic adventure...
Last Supper Secrets
Check out our behind-the-scenes content from the high-octane dinner of dancing-delights that Julius Caesar of Rome MAY have enjoyed just moments before his brutal murder.
Above is the last supper enjoyed by the Emperor of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar. Sort of.
Ingredients:
• 152 hrs spent in my shed making rigs.
• 22,000 elastic bands.
• 16 visits to B&Q.
• Milk of the ever wonderful Penny Markham.
• 6 pints of lightly fingered blue tack.
• A dusting of fancy-fingered Rob Morris, food stylist to the stars. Thank you thank you sir.
• 1 very happy butcher for all the lamb chops I bought.
• A most attractive wife to cook prawns into the night.
A really simple one. Guess who….
Ingredients:
• 3 Cardboards
• Flowery things.
• Milk of the ever wonderful Penny Markham.
• 1 tin of tuna
• 2 slices of sandwich bread
• Lettuce and stuff.
Here is the first of my ‘supper’ experiments.
Ingredients:
• 1 generous spoonful of Lard.
• 4 scoops Frilly lace
• 1 dealer-baggy of finest Corsican fingernail filth.
• The exceptional Kindness of Georgie Besterman fabulous food stylist who was our cookie
• Milk of the ever wonderful Penny Markham.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
Many thanks must go to Joseph Williams for plumbing the bowels of joy and sadness to bring us ‘the cooks hands’.
special effects devices we built for our Julius Caesar’s Last Supper…
BEAN TOP FLINGER: The shot was meant to look like graduation hats f lying at a university. And it did!
LAMB CAGE: This allowed the lamb chop to always register in the same place as it cooked.
JUICER: Obvs!
FLING DEVICE: Not so good after it got waterlogged.
FLING DEVICE: Obvs!
RAIN MAKER: Lovely effect, though we didn’t use the shot.
STAPLE CARBOHYDRATES
X-RAY PRAWNS: With special powers.
FLING DEVICE: The latex came from a special shop in Soho I have never been to before.
Julius Caesar was knifed 23 times by members of his senate. It was a carefullyplanned mutiny and execution, orchestrated to prevent history from appointing any single senator as a scapegoat or martyr to the murder.
But the act itself must have been brutal and emotionally charged… a viciousand dramatic action committed by otherwise mild-mannered thinking men. In a blindly link-less homage to that thought I decided to make Caesars Last Supperfilm with many of my own slashing edits and cuts; for a fast paced, high octane and (if it’s possible in film about a plate of dinner), emotional journey.
My Jimi Hendrix’s Last Supper film is going to be a little thing, a single shot with just a tiny dose of Hendrix in it. What appealed to me was the soundtrack; a piece of non-typical Hendrix just the right shape and size to fit his last meal… a Tuna Sandwich.
Interesting Hendrix facts…
As a child he was inseparable from a broom-handle that he carried around as a pretend guitar. His social worker advised that leaving the boy Hendrix without a guitar might result in psychological damage.
Hendrix first made it big in England in 1966, not in the U.S.
His newly formed band played their first gig in London to an audience that included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. Gasps of ‘Jesus’, ‘shit’ and ‘damn’ were uttered.
In London he lived in the same building as Handel and listened to his music; two musical geniuses living in a foreign country separated by 250 years.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a dirty fighter, a revolutionary and an egotist. I love the idea of portraying his last meal as grubby and visceral; filth amongst the lace and frills of the time. The last meal of a man who cares nothing for the pomp and chatter of political life.
Napoleon said “If you wish to be a success in the world promise everything, deliver nothing”. He is having a pop at contemporary politicians I think, with a phrase more meaningful now than ever.
He is also (dubiously) credited with coming up with the longest know palindrome, after his banishment to the island of Elba…
Hitler loved fried trout, liver dumplings and onion pie. Last supper uncertain.
Last supper: Mushroom and asparagus omelette, Dover Sole and vegetable tempura.
Four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies as a midnight snack.
Last Supper unknown.
Last supper unknown. Favourite meal: Fillet of roast deer stuffed with pate de fois gras and served with truffle sauce.
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Last supper: Mushroom and asparagus omelette, Dover Sole and vegetable tempura.