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…

Filmmaker's quotes 

About food production:

"The production of food is part of a closed system that people have extremely vague ideas about. The images used in ads, where butter’s churned and a little farm’s shown with a variety of animals, have nothing to do with the place our food actually comes from. There’s a kind of alienation with regard to the creation of our food and these kinds of labor, and breaking through it is necessary."

About the lack of interviews or voice-over:

"The intention is to show actual working situations and provide enough space for thoughts and associations in long sequences. The viewers should just plunge into this world and form their own opinions."

Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES - “Devastating! A must-see!" 

PREMIERE - "Outstanding! Provocative! Eccentrically lovely and frequently horrifying … deserves to find an audience of hungry cinephiles."

NEW YORK MAGAZINE - "Critic's Pick!"

THE NATION - "The 2001: A Space Odyssey of modern food production."

FALTER - “This is how successful documentary cinema can look like today.”

RAY - “Rarely has the movie business witnessed a more incisive view of the almightiness of technology. We give ourselves our daily bread today. The new movie of Nikolaus Geyrhalter shows the ‘How’ in a most awe-inspiring manner.”

AUSTRALIAN FILM NEWS - “An impressive piece of dramaturgy of image and sound. (…) The risky decision of leaving only the images to the viewers has paid off.”

TICKETS

On the door: £5 / £3.50 (concessions)

Or advance tickets online: £4.50 and £3 (concessions) http://www.wegottickets.com/event/204690