FILM: Our Daily Bread (2005)

Event information

“Mr. Geyrhalter takes us inside worlds of wonder and of terror.” – New York Times

Food Production

Award-scooping documentary Our Daily Bread is a highly impressive look at the mechanised process of food production. For it, Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter and his crew took to factories and high-tech farms across Europe in order to depict an industry that many of us take for granted, but which exists seemingly hidden from everyday experience.

Our Daily Bread is a startling succession of images and Geyrhalter refrains from using a voice-over throughout. As a result, his film is given a noticeably cinematic quality that engages audiences to make up their own minds regarding the subject matter at hand. Topical but never preachy, this is powerful and intelligent filmmaking that provides much food for thought…

Reviews

“This documentary-installation piece left me speechless. It seems like fiction, like a mad set-dressing for some sci-fi nightmare inspired by Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick: and yet it is all real. I have never seen anything like it in all my life.” – PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN

MORE INFO:
http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1107