Magia comestibilis by Nazif Can Akçalı | FRA | TRK | 13'

Magia comestibilis is a film 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 film 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. 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.