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Our Daily Bread

Food & Agriculture • 1h 32m

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Documentary • 2005 • 92 minutes

OUR DAILY BREAD reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed: surreal landscapes optimized for agricultural machinery, clean rooms in cool industrial buildings designed for maximum efficiency, and elaborate machines that operate on a 'disassembly line' basis.

Dispensing entirely with explanatory commentary or "talking-head" interviews, OUR DAILY BREAD unfolds on the screen like a disturbing dream: an endlessly fascinating flow of images, an insistent gaze, accompanied only by the persistent industrial soundtrack—whirring, clattering, booming, slurping—of the ingenious marvels of mechanization employed by agri-business.

“DEVASTATING! A MUST-SEE!" —The New York Times

“The 2001: A Space Odyssey of modern food production.” —Stuart Klawans, The Nation

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