Saturday 17 December 2005, 15.00

Frederick Wiseman, USA 1976, 112’

While sales ring up in the offices of the Monfort Meat Packing Farm in Greeley, Colorado, the slaughterhouse staff work over the cattle carcasses, picking apart the innards for public consumption. Heir to both Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle (1906) and Georges Franju’s film Le Sang des Bêtes (Blood of the Beasts, 1949), Meat chronicles the social implications of what we eat and how it is distributed with uncanny visual beauty. Through Wiseman’s clever lens, labour disputes ensue while steaks are shipped off to supermarkets, and the viewer is faced with the murderous truth of mass consumption.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 exhibition