Peter Strickland
Sep 01, 2022
3 minutes
Interview by ANTON BITEL
Illustration by
BEN TURNER
While our national cinema is dominated by ‘heritage’ stories, plucky underdog comedies and urban miserabilism, the films of writer/director Peter Strickland are eccentric outliers. In his latest, , he merges creative and digestive processes at an artists’ retreat for food-focused musicians. Idiosyncratic, obscure and also often absurdly funny, Strickland’s filmography offers an alternative model of what a more adventurous British cinema might and should be.
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