Our Daily Bread

The Chicago premiere of a new film on industrial food

Our Daily Bread is a wide-screen tableau exposing the brave new world of industrial food production and high-tech farming. As evocative and (seemingly) futuristic as any sci-fi work, the film looks at how food is now produced for the developed world: an industrial environment in which people, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of a super-efficient system.

Eschewing interviews and voiceovers, Our Daily Bread presents the monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds that are an unspoken (and generally unsighted) but integral part of our lives.

While this remarkable documentary will likely engender fascination, awe and even shock amongst viewers, it simply aims to show the industrial production of food as a reflection of our society’s values: plenty of everything, made as quickly and as efficiently as modern technology permits.

The German production (with English subtitles) runs 92 minutes long and is directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

Our Daily Bread will be shown for one week only, beginning Friday, Nov. 24 and running through Thursday, November 30. The Chicago screening will be at Cinematheque, located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. For more information, contact Charles Coleman, Program Director at 773-281-9075 or charles@facets.org.