Our Daily Bread

(Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005)

Mon, May 21, 2007  |  8:00PM
Film/Video Theater

Come to a screening of Our Daily Bread, an outstanding documentary film about contemporary food production, and help raise awareness of hunger in our community. As your "ticket" please bring a nonperishable food item to donate to Operation Feed, a project of the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.

Our Daily Bread vividly reminds us of where our food comes from by examining the depersonalized, mechanized, and often barbarous world of industrialized agriculture and food production. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates a film Premiere magazine calls "eccentrically lovely and frequently horrifying" without utlizing voiceover narration, interviews, or a overtly partisan point of view. Instead, his beautiful cinematography provides stark contrasts to the environments he depicts--a sterile abattoir, pesticide-doused field of sunflowers, or assembly line covered with baby chicks. As Variety noted, many shots possess a "painterly quality, particularly the portrait shots of workers at rest, their off-center composition and use of light sometimes recalling Vermeer paintings." Audiences found the film terrifically moving when it was shown at the Wexner Center in January. (92 mins., 35mm).

The screening is also intended to help launch this year's growth cycle of The Beanfiled, a public art project conceived by artist Michael Mercil. It's an actual patch of bean plants, which will soon be growing again in a sheltered corner outside the Wexner Center along College Road. The project is now in its second season.

The benefit dinner originally announced to accompany the film screening has been canceled.

More about The Beanfield


Operation Feed official web site


Our Daily Bread official web site

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