“The role of people other than the artist in making art is one of the core concerns of Flux Gourmet, which takes place at an artists’ residency which has attracted the sort of people you would expect to find at an artists’ residency, from people taking it way too seriously, to people incapable of taking anything seriously enough.”

“There are some wild set-pieces, mostly related to Lola’s rehearsal process, which involves putting her actors through various forms of psychological torment, the most exquisite of which is forcibly restraining them while she pops all of their most precious awards into a metal grinder.”

“A gnarled, chaotic chain of mishaps begins with his middle-aged, off-the-wall art teacher encouraging the devoted Robert to draw him nude; from that inauspicious start, the poor kid tangles with the law, takes an admin job in a crummy public defender’s office, leaves his parents’ plush house for the single grottiest basement flatshare ever captured on film.”

“This is a world where humans, clones and android beings live in semi-harmony, as sci-fi writers have been imagining for eons. It’s the way they interact and rely on each other here that feels fresh.”