Our Daily Bread (2006)

In sealed rooms, as sterile as computer microprocessor factories, chicks hatch while being closely monitored. A huge hose sucks salmon out of a fjord. Metal teeth chomp up fields of sunflowers. On mechanized conveyer systems, chickens are cut up and pigs are gutted in seconds, although cows take a little longer.

In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, Our Daily Bread shows us 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. More »