FLUX GOURMET is by far Strickland's funniest film yet, and that isn't to say his previous films were entirely without laughs. The subject of the laughter in this case is - rather ironically, considering Strickland's own professional milieu - the world of artists and those who fund them. However, rather than engage in outright satire, Strickland pokes fun at the pretensions of the art world with a devious, impish sense of humour while managing to remain remarkably po-faced about it all. In particular, the film takes great pleasure in exploring all of the humorous dimensions suggested in the phrase 'artsy fartsy'. Try imagining something along the lines of LA GRANDE BOUFFE (1973) meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984). The result is a grotesquely funny farce that will delight anybody who enjoyed Strickland's previous films and probably confuse and disgust just about anybody else.