So that's it.
Our daily bread
Freezing and speechless pictures of the European food industry: relentless cinematic meditation.
Welcome to the empire of industrial food and high-tech agriculture. By walking his camera for two years across Europe in the farms, greenhouses, fields, slaughterhouses and factories that supply most of our tables, the Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers the fascinating and terrible picture of nature enslaved, abused, denied by technique. Gigantic hangars where hens, chicks or piglets pile up as far as the eye can see, chemical baths where millions of apples and tomatoes float, thousands of hectares of sunflower or wheat in extensive cultivation, square kilometers of greenhouses that disfigure Almeria; omnipotence of the machines to spray, tear off, disembowel, disinfect, around which are busy auxiliaries, men or women, in futuristic suits, concentrated on tasks repeated endlessly.
Inhumanity
Through his meticulously composed framing and soundtrack, his fluid editing, the absence of comments and interviews, the filmmaker makes the images speak with the force of a nightmare, contemplating the radical inhumanity of a world that we do not not usually seen - and which we would prefer not to think about. Because we tacitly accept the rules, productivity, low prices and mass consumption. Nikolaus Geyrhalter invites us not only to meditate on what we eat, but on what we have become.
Allocated sheet with Trailer: http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... 12234.html
IMDB file: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765849/
Other documentaries on the subject of industrial food:
- We feed the world, the hunger market (Austrian too)
- Our daily poison (broadcast on March 15, 2011 on Arte)
- Food Inc.