Our Daily Bread
Unser täglich Brot
Austria, Germany
2005
92 Min
Color
1.78:1
Polish, German
Synopsis
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds – a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living. -Geyrhalterfilm.com
Director
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Producer, director and cameraman Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna in 1972. At the age of twenty-two he founded his own production company (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion). Among his films are the award-winning Pripyat, Our Daily Bread and Elsewhere and his latest film is 7915 KM. In 2003 Nikolaus Geyrhalter received the Austrian State Award for Film Art. —doxafestival.ca
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20Jun11
Is death easier to accept if it's cleaner? Is our fuss about it solely grounded in the physical and, only consequently, emotional mess it produces? If death leaves nothing in its trail, if the body it affects is integrally used for those left alive (until when?) or its unsusable remnants sweeped and buried, then it does not exist? And if death does not exist, then we've reached eternity.
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Răpciune
20Jun11
Eternity through complete physical combustion. A sui generis mise-en-scene of timelessness. Can death's removal in space concur with its removal from time? 'Cause how can you prove the existence of a thing if you have no physical evidence of it? Is death on its way of becoming an abstract, uncountable, thus discardable concept? And what is afterlife? Afterlife is the benefit you generate post-mortem for your fellow citizens. Let human recycling begin! Unlike Franju's Blood of the Beasts, this movie is a clinically clean, cold, precise account. But it tells more about our time than Franju's heartbreaking appeal: the perfect killing is the invisible one, because it is easier to accept. I wonder when we shall look at humans hanging from those hooks as cold-bloodedly as we now study the slow cadence of the pig carcasses hanging from them. Btw, peppers in my garden never rose more than 40cm above the ground, and tomatoes never got as arrogant as one metre and a half.
Christopher
8Apr10
For a food documentary and most likely a documentary and general - it doesn't get any better than this.
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23Jan10
If your looking to find out some interesting facts about the food industry...this is not for you...But if you are looking to be placed within the poetic world of it, then this is for you. I strongly believe if Humphrey Jennings was still making films today, there would be very little between his and Geyrhalter’s work.
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A Film For Real People, Who Are Sick of All The Bullshit Documentaries
By Christopher on February 4, 2010
Our Daily Bread provides a visual and thought provoking experience unmatched within the constant growing trend of food documentaries. Rather than being another common type food documentary, it allows… read review
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By John M. on August 1, 2009
Our Daily Bread is anything but dull.
Horrifying, knee-slapper, beautiful, mesmerizing, thought provoking all come to mind.
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