MAGIA COMESTIBILIS
YEAR
2025
MEDIUM
Film Installation
PRODUCTION LOCATION
Tourcoing, France
Sardegna, Italy
LINK
EXHIBITONS
-Culinary workshop: Tarhana Futurista | Médiathèque Andrée Chedid | Tourcoing, France
-Fiestarama | lille3000 | Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains | Tourcoing, France
-Panorama 27 | Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains | Tourcoing, France
CREDITS
Magia comestibilis is a film installation that explores our relationship with food through a reflection on longevity, biohacking, symbiosis and gastronomy. It explores the possibility of creating food out of the collaboration between humans, bacteria and artificial intelligence, a food that may help develop immortality.
The project brings together the food traditions of Sardinia’s Blue Zone and the practices of contemporary biohackers. On the one hand, the Sardinian centenarians embody an ancestral wisdom based on simplicity, the land and social ties; on the other, the biohackers explore the limits of life through science, technology and new diets.
In this dialogue, artificial intelligence creates the link between ancestral knowledge and contemporary innovation: it generates recipes based on biohacking products, food from the Blue Zones and scientific data. These dishes are then made and eaten in the film.
The accompanying installation offers a sensory experience fusing visual, edible and biological elements: viewers taste the food created, observe fermentations and follow the film. Somewhere between art, science and gastronomy, Magia comestibilis invites us to reflect on life and death, placing food at the centre of our biological transformation.
Scientific Collaboration: David Dauvillée and Corentin Spriet, CNRS researchers for UGSF (Unit of Structural and Functional Glycobiology) and PLBS (Lille Platforms in Biology and Health)
Collaborations with Biohacking Tool and Food Producers: Black Stuff, CytoLed, London Nootropics, Lucky Iron Life, Luminette, Mitolight, MitoZen Scientific, Muse, Pulsio,
RA Optics, THERA Nordic, Vielight, WeFood
Directors of Photography: Guillaume Delsert, Luca Del Vigo
Camera Assistants: Alicia Warin, Luca Porcu
Photographer: Luca Porcu
Guides: Melina Helm, Simone Dessena
Shepherds: Angelo Mula, Piero Sale, Tattanu Milia
Choristers of the choir Coro Cantores de Sa Turre d’Orosei: Alessandro Giovoni, Antonio Dessena, Antonio Porcu, Danilo Zuddas, Domenico Pira, Ettore Manni, Giampaolo Guiso, Gianni Lai, Giuseppe Deiana, Giuseppe Deiana, Luca Farris, Marco Busu, Marco Chessa, Marco Dalu, Mario Ortu, Massimo Novi, Maurizio Farris, Piero Saba, Pietro Chessa, Pietro Sanna, Sandro Pisanu, Silvano Esca, Simone Dessena, Simone Loche
Gaffer: Léonard Gregson
Grip: Théo Bertaux
Culinary Design: Nazif Can Akçalı, Simon Guittet
Cast: Nazif Can Akçalı, Pierre Le Guen
Set Photographer: Jorge Daniel Junco Ugaz
Assistant Director Intern: Valentine Sinnaeve
General Assistant Intern: Léa Dal Zilio
Sound Engineers: Déborah Drelon, Raphaël Zucconi,
Victor Lenoir
Sound Engineer Intern: Dany Jalain
Voice-over: David Owen, Michelle Post
Sound Design: Suzan Crose
Sound Editing: Justin Dematte
Mixing: Tom Nollet
Film Editing: Nazif Can Akçalı, Mathilde Chazaud-Kretschmer
VFX, Motion Design: Barış Gürsel
Color Grading: Charles Ledlaire
3D Modeling of the Installation: Olcay Berberoğlu
Installation Construction: Cyprien Quairiat, Hadrien Téqui, Nazif Can Akçalı, Théophile Carrot
Production Manager: Bruno Morat
