Sterile corridors make the film reminiscent of a Kubrick sci-fi, and it similarly depicts machines as monumental independent creatures that by mechanical motions convey food all the way to our table. Long shots and the sound design (the sound of machines and the roar of animals) comprise the film’s space. The cold eye of the camera registers the distance between the consumer and the product. The director has opted for a radical form of presenting the film without a narrator, music, statistics, or interviews. Everything is designed for the maximum efficiency of mass production.
Hypnotic sequences present a machine that can shake the fruit from an olive tree in fifteen seconds, machines for gutting fish or castrating piglets, surrealistic tracts of land optimised for more machines, the sterile boxes of a refrigeration plant. Food production in various locations in Europe has an almost utopian image, except for the fact that it is closely connected with what we eat every day. The stunning images of this film reveal the unknown world of the technically advanced agricultural industry. Produced by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Sound: Stefan Holzer, Andreas Hamza, Hjalti Bager–Jonathansson Our Daily Bread / Unser täglich Brot (Austria, 2005, 92 min, DCP)
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