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SAFFRON
 
Saffron, is a documentary portrait of Kasia Pogo who runs the world food shop in Inverness'
Victorian Market, where she sells a dizzying array of specialist foods from the four corners of the world to her customers visiting the shop from all over the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Kasia is the bridge between a network of global trade and a diverse clientele making their pilgrimages to her shop -whether they are recent immigrants to the region in search of comfort foods from home, or Scottish born and bred food explorers of world cuisines.


In this short film the artists will explore in more detail just who comes to the shop and why in a bid to reveal an intersectional map of sorts that represents something of the region's often hidden diversity. Part portrait of Kasia herself, and part landscape and map of her clientele, this documentary artwork will seek to offer a unique view of the highland region where foods from all over the world become touchstones between covalent cultures thriving and surviving in the Scottish Highlands.