Eight minutes of force-feeding that'll ruin your appetite for days.
A scene that’s at once seductive and repulsive, tender and obscene, aesthetically thrilling and grotesque. Surrounded by flowers, fruits, juices and other delicacies, Tejal Shah and Marylea Madiman, dressed in Indian traditional clothing, sit side by side. Shah remains passively seated while her partner brutally feeds her. The excessive eating creates an erotic tension and the interaction between the two blurs the line between sex and aggression. In a provocative way, the human condition, the relationship between violence and power, the body and identity are questioned.
Direction
Shah's unflinching control of erotic repulsion.
Production
Excessive food staging as weaponized aesthetic.
Acting
Madiman's aggressive tenderness, Shah's terrifying passivity.
Director
Tejal Shah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shah's work often interrogates how South Asian femininity gets consumed by Western and patriarchal gazes—here literalized through forced ingestion. The traditional clothing against brutal feeding suggests heritage itself becomes a site of violence.
The 8-minute runtime mirrors commercial pornography's standard length, deliberately queering that format while rejecting its pleasures. You're trapped in something that looks like it should arouse you but instead induces nausea.
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