Our Daily Bread
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's science fiction film “Our Daily Bread”(Austria 2005) gives us a blow in the stomach about the critical issue of food security. The future described is one of mechanical environments in air-conditioned industrial buildings, uniformity in movements and sizes, a nature subjugated to the norms of the machine, to productivity, to the perfection of repetition. Animals are not alive- they are little packs of protein coming out of an impeccably organised production line, which works better the more “unnatural” it is. But what looks like a science fiction scenario is the reality. What we eat is produced in places we have no experience of, places we rarely see. People exist only as part of a huge machinery. Workers without personality, with few personal moments, with protective clothing, gloves, ear plugs and helmets. They stand at specific points in the production line, doing only the jobs which have not yet been automated. It is obvious that this is only a matter of time.
OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest - and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.
