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

Screenings and selections:
• December 6-8, 2024: CINECO Festival Internacional de Cine y Ecología, Alicante, Spain.
• November 30 – December 14, 2024: Nuvola Creativa Festival delle Arti – VII edizione 2024, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• November 30, 2024: Pinus Sessions, Casa de Liège, São Paulo, Brazil.
• November 15, 2024 – January 12, 2025: Lines Fiction 2024, Kunstraum Kreuzberg – Bethanien, Berlin.
• November 11-17, 2024: accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival, Naples, Italy.
• September 8-14, 2024: FICASC – Serra Catarinense International Environmental Film Festival, Lages, Urubici, Urupema and São Joaquim, Brazil.
• July 19 – August 16, 2024: Qlimate Qronobot. AI and the Future of Our Planet. Solo exhibition by Maria Korporal in GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.
• June 29, 2024: Festival Miskigliamoci, Catasta, Italy.
• June 5-9, 2024: Vision 2030 – Cinema ecosostenibile, Teatro Tina Di Lorenzo, Noto (Sicily), Italy.
• May 19, 2024: Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK.
• April 12 – May 5, 2024: UPDATE 24, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• December 4-10, 2023: Festiverd 2023: En Clave Vídeo, Festival Internacional de Cine y Vídeo Verde de Venezuela.
• November 30 – December 3, 2023: ICONA Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
• November 5-11, 2023: AIU Film Festival, Jahra, Kuwait.
• October 26, 2023: Festival Film Bahari 2023 “Shifting Tides – Navigating Climate Change”, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
• August 23-27, 2023: Food Film Fest, Bergamo, Italy.
• May 21-31, 2023: Inheritance Festival 2023, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• May 5 – June 16, 2023: The Good Life, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin